Aoba Shrine, Sendai

Name: Aoba Shrine
Address: 7-1, Aobacho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
Telephone: +81 22-234-4964

#19 among attractions in Sendai

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Aoba Shrine is the memorial shrine of Date Masamune, located in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, near the site of the former Aoba Castle. The shrine was built in 1873 by petition of former retainers of the Date clan of former Sendai Domain to enshrine the deified spirit of Date Masamune under the name of Takefuruhiko-no-mikoto. This was in accordance with a practice which began in the Bakumatsu period and continued into the early Meiji period of establishing a shrine to the founders of the daimyō clan which ruled each feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. Under the State Shinto ranking system, the shrine was designated as a prefectural shrine. ()

Local name: 青葉神社 Established: 1874 (150 years ago)Coordinates: 38°16'58"N, 140°51'47"E

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7-1, Aobacho, Aoba-kuSendai Japan

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+81 22-234-4964

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