Sendai

{{Infobox settlement | name = Sendai | official_name = | native_name = | settlement_type = Prefecture capital and designated city | image_skyline = | image_flag = Flag of Sendai, Miyagi.svg | flag_alt = | image_seal = Symbol of Sendai, Miyagi.svg | seal_alt = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | image_blank_emblem = | nickname = City of Trees | motto = | image_map = | image_map1 = Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture Ja.svg | map_alt1 = | map_caption1 = Location of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture | pushpin_map = Japan | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption =   | coordinates = | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Japan | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Tōhoku | subdivision_type2 = Prefecture | subdivision_name2 = Miyagi | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = File:Sendai castle01s3872.jpg|Aoba Castle File:仙台城下絵図.jpg|Map of the area around Sendai Castle File:Sendai Zuiho-den Tor 2.jpg|Zuihōden File:Sendai Tōshō-gū haiden.jpg|Sendai Tōshōgū

=== Modern era === The first railway line between Sendai and Tokyo, now the Tōhoku Main Line, opened in 1887, bringing the area within a day's travel from Tokyo for the first time in history. Tohoku Imperial University, the region's first university, was founded in Sendai in 1907 and became the first Japanese university to admit female students in 1913.