07_Sendai36.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai61.jpg="Loople" tour around Sendai
07_Sendai28.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai53.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple, the Guardian Deity of Longevity is a bronze statue cast in 1863
07_Sendai.jpg=Zuigan-ji temple features a number of caves carved into the rock. These caves were used for memorial services and as a cinerarium to house the ashes of the deceased. The caves were constructed in the Kamakura period and remained in use until the Edo period.
07_Sendai44.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Godaido Temple
07_Sendai29.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai35.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai43.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Godaido Temple
07_Sendai60.jpg="Loople" tour around Sendai
07_Sendai26.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Godaido Temple
07_Sendai51.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple caves
07_Sendai52.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple caves
07_Sendai38.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai34.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai55.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple surroundings
07_Sendai17.jpg=Sendai station
DSC_0455.JPG=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai42.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) for lunch
07_Sendai25.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai12.jpg=Tokyo station to Sendai - two high speed trains joined
07_Sendai24.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai54.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple surroundings
07_Sendai18.jpg=Sendai station to Matsushima
07_Sendai37.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai41.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise - Oyster farms
07_Sendai49.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple caves
07_Sendai19.jpg=Matsushima and their monster oysters
07_Sendai23.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai57.jpg=Train ride from Matsushima back to Sendai
07_Sendai14.jpg=Tokyo to Sendai
07_Sendai40.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise - Oyster farms
07_Sendai22.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai31.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
Journeys.jpg=Saturday 11/6/2016 - On this map, to Sendai then Matsushima is the Yellow line
07_Sendai30.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai48.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple caves
07_Sendai65.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) is a group of islands in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. There are some 260 tiny islands (shima) covered in pines (matsu) – hence the name – and is ranked as one of the Three Views of Japan.
07_Sendai13.jpg=Tokyo to Sendai
07_Sendai16.jpg=Tokyo to Sendai
DSC_0504.JPG=Matsushima (松島?) - Godaido Temple
07_Sendai21.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai64.jpg=Back at Sendai station to catch the Shinkansen back to Tokyo. An orchestra playing in the station.
07_Sendai56.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) railway station
07_Sendai47.jpg=Matsushima (松島?)
07_SendaiPan14.JPG=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai50.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Zuigan-ji temple caves
07_Sendai39.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise - Oyster farms
07_Sendai33.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai63.jpg="Loople" tour around Sendai
07_Sendai20.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
07_Sendai59.jpg=A short "Loople" tour around Sendai on a very, very crowded tour bus
07_Sendai46.jpg=Matsushima (松島?)
07_Sendai62.jpg="Loople" tour around Sendai
07_Sendai27.jpg=Sendai station
07_Sendai45.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) - Godaido Temple
07_Sendai15.jpg=Tokyo to Sendai
Fukushima.jpg=On our train journey to Sendai, we pass through Fukushima where the Nuclear power station disaster occured. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011.
07_Sendai58.jpg=Train ride from Matsushima back to Sendai
07_Sendai32.jpg=Matsushima (松島?) bay cruise
