17 Apr 2014

Sendai Airport to JR Sendai Station

Miraculously resurrected main airport of Tohoku

Oleh Takako Sakamoto

Community writer

Curvy shaped beautiful terminal building of Sendai Airport

Sunset seen from the aircraft bound for Sendai airport

Inside the terminal building of Sendai Airport

Inside the domestic departure terminal of Sendai Airport

Ox tongue ramen served at Sendai airport

Miniture train displayed at Sendai Airport Station

Stained-glass art displayed at Sendai Airport train station

Platform at Sendai Airport train station

Sendai Airport Access Line train bound for JR Sendai Station

Cute characters drawn on the train. The door opens/closes by pushing the button beside it to save energy

Stained-glass art displayed at JR Sendai Station. Samurai drawn at upper left is Date Masamune, the first lord of the Sendai Han

Sendai Airport, this relatively new, beautiful airport with a curvy-shaped modern terminal building is the main airport of the Tohoku region. Although it was damaged and flooded badly by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, because of an immediate and efficient rescue endeavor first by the United States Air Force, then later by additional US and Japanese military units, the airport was able to miraculously reopen just one month after the disaster, on April 13, 2011. This rescue mission was called 'Operation Tomodachi (friend)'. The access from the airport to JR Sendai station is an easy 30-minute ride. Since the terminal building is directly connected to the airport train station, you just have to follow the sign and a few minutes later you'll be standing at the platform of the train station. A ticket to JR Sendai station is 630 yen.