Sendai 仙台 is a real old city. There are lots of historical and beautiful places for you to see. There is a bus route that could take you a round trip in the city's famous sites. The best thing is, you pay once but get up and down the buses of the same route at all those fixed stops without extra charges. However, there are 12 stops. It could take you a whole day to visit all these sites. And, we could not afford a whole day as we had to hurry for the train to Hachinohe 八戸. So, we picked only 2 sites.
The bus route is called 'Loople'. Obviously, from the name, it said that the bus would loop through the city. You can easily find the bus stop near the JR station. See the logo and the bus. So outstanding and pretty, right?
The first site was Zuihoden Mausoleum 瑞鳳殿. It is an old temple with quite a large scale. It was built at the foot of a hill. Everywhere is with huge giant size trees. There are three temples for people to admire a Lord, Date Masamune伊達政宗, in Japanese Warring States Period. It is a tomb somehow, but we cannot see the tomb at all. Actually, Sendai was an important city in that warring period. Date Masamune伊達政宗 is the lord of this city. Thus, there are so much historical stuff of that period around the city.
For that temple, it was revamped for several times as it is a real old temple. You can see a little museum inside the area which shows histories of that lord. Worth to take a peek on Japanese history.The next visiting site was the Site of Sendai Castle. Actually, the castle was collapsed for quite a long time. There you can see the foot of the castle. Only few rocks left there. And a sculpture of Date Masamune伊達政宗. The castle was owned by him at the warring period for military usage. Now the area is acted as a park with some footprint of Date Masamune伊達政宗. Quite a nice place. From there, as it is a high place on hill side, you can see the whole Sendai city. The view is nice. That day was also with sunny sky. The view was so great.
There is a temple for visitors to admire the lord. You can make wishes there by hanging up some small wooden plates, or tying up paper wishes as a knot on the strings. Similar to those in other Japanese temples.
Leaving the temple, we took the 'Loople' bus back to the station area. There is a street for shopping. We've walked several times there previously. Window shopping is real good there. We then went into the train station. There is a mall with so many restaurants. It was lunch time, so we walked into one to eat ox tongue again. Still, it was so delicious. It was grilled with pepper and salt. You must try when being there.
After that, we walked a while on that shopping street again. Then went back to the train station and wait for the train. Again, we were going to take bullet train. 
And we wanted to try the meal box so bad last time. So, we bought 2 to try on the train. See, the box packages were so nice. 
But, the content... not worth to try. Anyway, we took the train and headed to our great destination. We arrived there at night. So checked in the hotel and went to bed early for enough energy to deal with the coming journey.
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