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Sendai
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The largest city in the Tohoku region,
SENDAI
is a sprawling but pleasant place, with broad, tree-lined avenues and a lively downtown district. Though often just regarded as a staging post on the way to Matsushima Bay
, the city's
castle ruins
, with their local history museum, and the ornate mausoleum of Sendai's revered founder, the
daimyo
DatAŠ Masamune
, are worth a brief stop. During the
Star Festival
, the Tanabata Matsuri (Aug 6-8), the city centre is awash with thousands of bamboo poles festooned with colourful paper tassels, poems and prayers, celebrating the only day in the year - weather permitting - when the two astral lovers, Vega the weaver and Altair the cowherd, can meet. Other useful information
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Japan,
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