Sendai (jpn)

Sendai

Sendai ranks 262nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Innsbruck, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Dayton, Ohio. Memorable people born in Sendai include Hirohiko Araki, Shigeyoshi Inoue, and Kiyoshi Shiga. Memorable people who died in Sendai include Carlo Scarpa. Sendai has been the birth place of many soccer players and actors and the death place of many architects. Sendai is located in Japan.

Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. As of 1 August 2023, the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, and is one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the daimyō Date Masamune. It is nicknamed the City of Trees ; there are Japanese zelkova trees lining many of the main thoroughfares such as Jōzenji Street and Aoba Street . In the summer, the Sendai Tanabata Festival, the largest Tanabata festival in Japan, is held. In winter, the trees are decorated with thousands of lights for the Pageant of Starlight , lasting through most of December. The city is also home to Tohoku University, consistently ranked amongst the top institutions of higher education in Japan. On 11 March 2011, coastal areas of the city suffered catastrophic damage from a magnitude 9.0 offshore earthquake, which triggered a destructive tsunami. Read more on Wikipedia