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The largest city in the Tohoku region, SENDAI is a sprawling but pleasant place, with broad, tree-lined avenues and a lively downtown district. Though often just regarded as a staging post on the way to Matsushima Bay , the city's castle ruins , with their local history museum, and the ornate mausoleum of Sendai's revered founder, the daimyo Date Masamune , are worth a brief stop. During the Star Festival , the Tanabata Matsuri (Aug 6-8), the city centre is awash with thousands of bamboo poles festooned with colourful paper tassels, poems and prayers, celebrating the only day in the year - weather permitting - when the two astral lovers, Vega the weaver and Altair the cowherd, can meet.
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