--- title: "Natori-shi – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Natori-shi, Japan: Natori is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Nearby: Sendai Castle, Sendai City Museum, Miyagi Baseball Stadium. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/natori-shi" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/natori-shi.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Sendai_Bay_2020-10.jpg/1920px-Sendai_Bay_2020-10.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in Tōhoku, Japan · Miyagi # Natori-shi Natori is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. ![Natori-shi](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Sendai_Bay_2020-10.jpg/1920px-Sendai_Bay_2020-10.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Natori-shi · Kinori The place Natori is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2020, the city had an estimated population of 79,459 in 31,748 households, and a population density of 810 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 98.17 square kilometres (37.90 sq mi). Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natori%2C_Miyagi), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Natori-shi 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Sendai Castle Aoba Castle is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Throughout the Edo period, Aoba Castle was home to the Date clan, daimyō of Sendai Domain. 9.5 km · castle in Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoba_Castle) 2. Sendai City Museum The Sendai City Museum is the main museum of Sendai, Japan, and is located in the former Third Bailey of Sendai Castle. The museum displays various artifacts related to the Date clan and the history of Sendai. 9.9 km · museum in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_City_Museum) 3. Miyagi Baseball Stadium Rakuten Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi, also named Miyagi Baseball Stadium, is a baseball stadium in Miyaginohara Sports Park in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The 30,508-seat park is owned by the prefecture and operated by Rakuten, which has used it as the home field for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball since 2005. 9.5 km · baseball stadium in Sendai, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Mobile_Saikyo_Park_Miyagi) 4. Mutsu Kokubun-ji Temple Mutsu Kokubun-ji is a Buddhist temple in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Japan. It belongs to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and its honzon is a hibutsu statue of Yakushi Nyōrai. 8.8 km · Buddhist temple in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsu_Kokubun-ji) 5. Sendai Gymnasium Kamei Arena Sendai is an indoor sporting arena located in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 7,000. 5.5 km · building in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamei_Arena_Sendai) 6. Takekoma Inari Shrine The Takekoma Inari Shrine is a Shintō shrine in the city of Iwanuma in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is considered one of the three main shrines dedicated to the kami Inari, and claims to be the second-oldest Inari shrine in Japan. 7.8 km · Shinto shrine in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takekoma_Inari_Shrine) 7. Xebio Arena Sendai Xebio Arena Sendai is an arena located in the city of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It serves as the home arena for the Sendai 89ers of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league. 6.6 km · arena in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xebio_Arena_Sendai) 8. Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1996. 5.9 km · museum in Sendai, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_City_Tomizawa_Site_Museum) 9. Sendai City Museum of History and Folklore Sendai City Museum of History and Folklore opened in Tsutsujigaoka Park, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan in 1979. The museum building, the former barracks of the 4th Infantry Regiment, built in 1874 and extended in 1876, is the oldest surviving Western-style building in the prefecture and a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property. 10 km · museum in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_City_Museum_of_History_and_Folklore) 10. Atago Shrine Atago Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines the kami Kagu-tsuchi, and its annual festival takes place on July 24. 8.4 km · building in Taihaku-ku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atago_Shrine_(Sendai%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Natori-shi **Airports:** Sendai (SDJ), 4 km · Niigata (KIJ), 158 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 225 km\ **Stations:** Sendai Airport, 4.2 km · Sendai Station, 9.9 km · Aoba-dōri Station, 10 km · Natori Station, 800 m · Itsutsubashi Station, 9 km\ - Niigata → Natori-shi 164 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ¥2,380–3,240 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/niigata-to-natori-shi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Niigata&to=Natori-shi) - Omitama → Natori-shi 217 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · ¥2,740–3,740 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omitama-to-natori-shi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omitama&to=Natori-shi) - Narita → Natori-shi 270 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · ¥3,560–4,860 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/narita-to-natori-shi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Narita&to=Natori-shi) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. 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What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Taiheiyo Ferry (太平洋フェリー) (Japanese) +81-22-259-0211. - Get in Offers overnight car ferries to Nagoya (21 hr 40 min) and Tomakomai (in southern Hokkaido) (15 hr 20 min) on the SS Ishikari and SS Kitakami. - Get in Getting there: Ferry terminal is a ten-minute taxi ride away from Nakanosakae Station (中野栄駅) on the JR Senseki line (仙石線). - Get in For further details, check out the ferry website. From [Wikivoyage: Sendai](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sendai), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 999 km 2. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,274 km 3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,840 km 4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,211 km 5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,369 km If you know how people move in Natori-shi – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnatori-shi&title=Natori-shi&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnatori-shi), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Natori-shi Natori-shi is 11 km from [Sendai](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sendai), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Iwanuma](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/iwanuma) city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan 7.7 km - [Taihaku-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taihaku-ku) ward of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture, Japan 6 km - [Wakabayashi-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wakabayashi-ku) ward of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture, Japan 8.1 km - [JR Bus Tōhoku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jr-bus-tohoku) operator of inter-city and regional bus lines, Japan 9.5 km [The place page for Natori-shi](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/natori-shi) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/natori-shi, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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