Miyagi Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast and bounded to the west by the Ōu Mountains, the longest mountain range in Japan, with 24% of its total land area being designated as Natural Parks. Sendai is the capital and largest city of Miyagi Prefecture, and the largest city in the Tōhoku region, with other major cities including Ishinomaki, Ōsaki, and Tome. Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the northwest, Yamagata Prefecture to the west, and Fukushima Prefecture to the south. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,282 km 2 (2,812 sq mi). Miyagi Prefecture ( 宮城県, Miyagi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Reservations are needed in advance, but the good news is they stay open until everyone has picked their last berry! The booking page is in Japanese but you can find it here.Miyagi bush clover ( Lespedeza thunbergii) the strawberries are up high, not on the ground, so you can actually walk and pick them without bending over! This means it’s also wheelchair accessible. Zunda is typically found in street food vendors, and you can also find it in manjuu cakes, as a soft serve flavour, and more unique combos!Īnother Miyagi Prefecture produced food item is strawberries! And the best news is you can visit Ichigo World in Yamato Town to pick them fresh yourself! Ichigo World uses state of the art farming practices – i.e. It’s traditionally used to top mochi rice cakes, but lately it’s being incorporated into cakes and pastries as trendy European desserts are being infused with Japanese flavours. This is a sweet paste made from mashed soy beans, sugar, and a little bit of salt that’s green in colour. A town called Shiogama has the highest number of sushi shops per population in all of Japan, so if you want to see this rice paired with the best seafood, this is the place to go! Sendai zukedon is a sushi dish that highlights the local rice with a big bowl of it topped with marinated white fish. Spin offs from the rice production include a healthy number of sake breweries, sushi (where the highlight is the rice not the fish!) and the recommended time to visit is Autumn, when the first rice harvest of the year is. We mentioned Date Masamune (the feudal era lord) before, but one of his achievements was implementing strategies to make Miyagi Prefecture suitable for rice cultivation. Less gourmet is beef tongue curry, probably more for those on a budget! The local beef, Sendai beef, are raised on rice and barley and are given either an A5 or B5 rating (this is the highest!) but really the tongue steals the show.Ī common meal regarded as “gourmet” consists of grilled beef tongue, accompanied with ox tail soup and mugimeshi rice with barley. It’s common for Japanese style BBQ as well as eaten in hot pots and shabu shabu. Gyuutan is beef tongue that’s thinly sliced.
MIYAGI PREFECTURE FREE
If you find a store called a kaki g oya they might have all you can eat oysters (capped at 1 or 1.5 hours) but if you want to eat them and not pay, then check out the Matsushima Oyster Festival which happens every February – you’ll get free oysters and sake! Almost any oyster dish you find will be special here, but we recommend trying to find kaki-don (a large serving of marinated oysters over rice) and the best season to eat the oysters at their best is October to March in Winter. Miyagi Prefecture produces 23% of the oysters in Japan, so it takes them pretty seriously. Miyagi Prefecture is accessible by car, Shinkansen bullet train, and plane. Other famous things from Miyagi Prefecture include the feudal lord Date Masamune, the electronics and appliances production industries, Sendai and Aoba Castles, Naruko hot spring, and a number of festivals. Photography enthusiasts should definitely try to capture this landscape! The other 2 views are Itsukushima shrine in Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture and Amanohashidate sand bar in Kyoto Prefecture. Matsushima is a group of islands and is only about 30 minutes away from Sendai by train. One of the ‘3 great views of Japan’ is in Miyagi Prefecture. The 2011 tsunami hit Miyagi Prefecture, but despite this disaster Miyagi Prefecture has recovered and is a beautiful holiday destination. Miyagi Prefecture is part of the Tohoku region in northern Honshu (the main island of Japan) and its capital city, Sendai, is the largest city in Tohoku.
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