Sendai - Introduction

Our next destination was "Sendai" in Miyagi prefecture.

Here's Wiki about Sendai:

Sendai (Sendai-shi) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. In 2005, the city had a population of one million, and was one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the daimyo Date Masamune, and is well known by its nickname, the City of Trees (Mori no Miyako); there are about 60 zelkova trees on Jōzenji Street (Jōzenji dōri) and Aoba Street (Aoba dōri).

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.

On March 11, 2011, coastal areas of the city suffered catastrophic damage from a magnitude 9.0 offshore earthquake which triggered a destructive tsunami.

Here's direction from Tokyo to Sendai.

And as stated in Wiki, Miyagi prefecture was affected by Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, causing the most victims in this area..

I also didn't know until I just checked the Wiki.
I can only found this info in Japanese wiki.

(With my English notes..)

At that time...
I was in Singapore and my mother messaged me and told me she was safe.
I didn't get what she meant first..
She explained to me about what happened and I couldn't believe this kind of disaster just happened in Japan!
My relative was staying Iwate prefecture and my mother was so worried because her call didn't get through.
But somehow I was able to communicate with my cousin by SMS so I was able to let my mother know that they were safe.. :)
But they told me whole village was black out..

After this incident, this area (not only these 3 prefectures) is suffered a lot of economical damage..

Well, in this Tohoku trip, overall impression is that Tohoku people were showing that they were just doing fine!
And my Tohoku trip proved that!

This area is really nice to visit.
A true Japanese culture and soul is there! :)