Sendai: all 9 tours and excursions for your cruise

Explore Sendai at your leisure during your full-day (8-hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your driver and English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Shiogama Fish Market, Zuihoden Mausoleum, Sendai City...

Explore Sendai at your leisure during your half-day (4-hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your driver and English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Shiogama Fish Market, Zuihoden Mausoleum, Sendai City...

Explore Sensai at your leisure during your full-day (8-hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your driver and English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Shiogama Fish Market, Zuihoden Mausoleum, Sendai City...

Explore Sendai at your leisure during your half-day (4-hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your driver and English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Shiogama Fish Market, Zuihoden Mausoleum, Sendai City...

Matsushima CruiseDepart at the pier for a 30 minute drive to Matsushima.  The best way to appreciate the incredible natural scenery of Matsushima Bay is from the water! For hundreds of years, Matsushima Bay has been celebrated as one of Japan's three most scenic views alongside Miyajima(Hiroshima) and Amanohashidate(Kyoto). The bay is dotted by over 200 small islands covered by pine trees. During your 50 minute cruise, you will see some famous islands such as Kane island and Nio island...

Motsuji TempleDepart the pier, and drive for approximately one hour and 45 minutes to the Motsuji Temple which was once a large and important temple of the Tendai sect, consisting of numerous buildings Today, It is best known for its garden, one of the few remaining pure land gardens in Japan. Pure land gardens were a popular garden style during the Heian Period (794-1185), attempting to recreate the Buddhist concept of the pure land or "Buddhist paradise". Like all pure land gardens, Motsuji's...

Motsuji TempleDepart the pier, and drive for approximately one hour and 45 minutes to the Motsuji Temple which was once a large and important temple of the Tendai sect, consisting of numerous buildings Today, It is best known for its garden, one of the few remaining pure land gardens in Japan. Pure land gardens were a popular garden style during the Heian Period (794-1185), attempting to recreate the Buddhist concept of the pure land or "Buddhist paradise". Like all pure land gardens,...

ICHINOKUAR Sake BreweryDepart the pier, and an approximately 30 minute drive will take you to the ICHINOKUAR Sake Brewery. Ichinokura is the largest brewery in the prefecture, located in Matsuyama, Osaki City, and a well-known rice-producing region where there is an abundance of high quality groundwater. The visit is approximately one-hour long guided by local staff. You will be able to view the equipment and sake making areas through glass windows, learn the history of the brewery, sample sake,...

Zuihoden MausoleumDepart the pier for an aapprox 45-min transfer to the Zuihoden Mausoleum, which is the mausoleum of Date Masamune, one of the most powerful feudal lords of the Edo Period. Masamune was the first in a long line of Date lords to rule over Sendai from Aoba Castle. His son and grandson, Date Tadamune and Date Tsunamune, are entombed in nearby mausoleums, while other descendants are laid to rest in less elaborate graves and tombs. Zuihoden was designed in the ornate style of the...