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~2.5ha 4–6 hour stop ashoreJust turn up#Take homeずんだ餅

Zunda and sasa-kamaboko

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Round trip
2 hr 30 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4–6 hour stop ashore
Margin already counted
Getting there
Sendai Station 3F
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Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve
Why we send people here

Mochi under sweet mashed green soybeans, and fish cake shaped like a bamboo leaf and grilled. Both are sold on the station’s third floor, next to the gyutan.

Before you count on it
  • No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
The story

Why Zunda and sasa-kamaboko is famous

Zunda is edamame mashed with sugar, a summer sweet of the Sendai domain served over mochi. Sasa-kamaboko is white fish paste shaped like a bamboo leaf, a Sendai invention of the Meiji era named after the Date family crest of bamboo and sparrows.

Where to have it

Three places, three different answers

The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.

The famous oneZunda Saryo, Sendai Station

The zunda shake is the reason. Shop 9:00–21:00, café to 18:00.

Open in Google MapsWhere locals goAbe Kamaboko, main shop

Claims to have named sasa-kamaboko; grill your own for ¥400, 10:00–16:00.

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The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

The rainy-day SendaiA wet day · ~4h door to doorWet weather — the station floors and the covered arcades
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day →
4 hr 30 min for both

Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

A large modern aquarium beside the port, built around the Sanriku coast’s own sea, with a dolphin and sea-lion show.

See the detail → 5 hr for both

Build a tuna bowl at Shiogama market

Buy rice at one stall and slices of tuna and whatever else looks good at the others.

See the detail →5 hr for both

Shiogama Shrine

The head shrine of the region, up 202 stone steps on a hill over the harbour, with a vermilion gate and a view of the bay.

See the detail →
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Sendai–Shiogama plan page.