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Spent 3 relaxing days in Sendai & surroundings, easily could have stayed longer. It strikes the perfect balance between "having everything you need/want" and chill enough that you can wander at your pace. Took a day trip to Yamadera, which is technically in Yamagata prefecture, it was a gorgeous autumn day, perhaps not peak foliage yet. Very few foreigners, but absolutely worth the detour, the entire Tohoku region is beautiful.
For transit, I connected seamlessly to Narita via Shinkansen to Tokyo Station and then Narita Express, <3hrs from Sendai total.
