A short list of the articles we would hand to someone visiting Sendai for the first time. It starts with Sendai Dagashi — the plain, handmade sweets of starch syrup, brown sugar and roasted grain that the city has been making since the Date era — and continues with the trips and study visits that show how the region presents itself to travellers today.

If you read only a couple of things here before a trip, read these: they cover the food that is genuinely local, the neighbourhoods worth walking, and the seasons in which each is at its best.

はじめて仙台を訪れる方におすすめしたい記事を集めました。伊達の時代から続く素朴な手づくり菓子「仙台駄菓子」をはじめ、地域の魅力が伝わる旅の記事を紹介しています。

We keep this list deliberately short and update it as new articles are published, so it stays something you can read in one sitting the evening before a trip rather than a full archive. If you have more time, the Tourism Spots category collects every place we have written about, season by season, and Staff’s Pick gathers the ones we recommend to friends first.