Hotel Kiyomizu Sendai
1 Hiirakura, Akiumachiyumoto Sendai, Miyagi, Tohoku, 982-0241, Japan
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Zao Soft Rime, Zao Onsen, Yamadera
... rime observation. Zao is famous for especially its soft rime and that brought me to the resort area. As soon as I got off the bus, I headed for the ropeway station for the Mt. Jizo summit. The ropeway cost JPY 2,500 and it was barely acceptable to me. I got on a gondola with a lot of skiers and snowboarders to Juhyo-kogen Station. Its name was misleading, because "Juhyo" means soft rime, but you must go up to Jizo-sancho Station to see soft rime. On my way to Zao, ...
That's why - temples in a forest of red and yellow
Today could not have been more perfect! After the downpour yesterday, today was perfectly sunny - the same temperature, but the sun changes everything... So I decided that the weather was perfect for a hiking tour and went to Yamadera, about an hour West of Sendai (with a very slow train). Yamadera is already on the Western side of the mountains, which means that in Winter it gets plenty of snow and cold winds ...
Sendai and Matsushima
Sendai was a nice surprise. It is about 350 km north of Tokyo, but only took about 1.5 hours to get there on the bullet train. Sendai was heavily bombed in WWII and was rebuilt with large avenues so is easy to get around.
One of the tourist spots I went to was Zuihoden Mausleun, the final resting place of Sendai`s founder lord Date Masamune. He lived at the start of the Edo Period when there ...
Why did I have to travel in autumn?
... they were heaven! A rather soft paste of mashed Japanese sweet potato, filled with two chestnuts. Probably difficult to imagine and unfortunately impossible to bring with me to Europe - they need to be stored in the fridge (to show you how seriously the Japanese take this - the lady in the shop had put some cooling thing into the bag...) But I'll be going back to that shop for some more before leaving Sendai ...



