Outside Sendai Station stand rows of shopping streets, with six covered arcades in this fun shopping city. The shopping in Sendai has been getting better and better, especially since the opening of the Sendai Izumi Premium Outlets in the outskirts of the city -- about 30 minutes by car from Sendai Station area -- in autumn 2008.

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The Sendai-Izumi Premium Outlets are located in the lush green surroundings of elegant Izumi Park Town, about 40 minutes from Sendai Station by bus. Here, you can find all your favorite shops in surroundings reminiscent of a pleasant New England townscape.

With 80 stores selling everything from everyday household goods to premium Japanese and international fashion, both adults and children can find everything they desire. During your shopping, if you'd like to take a rest, try the adjacent Izumi Park Town Tapio shopping center, which houses approximately 20 cafes and restaurants serving a range of Japanese and Western food options. If you decide to stay at the Sendai Royal Park Hotel, located just south of the mall, you can use your whole day to shop to your heart's content!

This store takes pride in the quality and taste of its products, even growing its own grapes to make wine and using delicious fruit to make jam, dressings, pasta sauce, and spices for flavoring the original food products on sale. In-store, try finding your favorite flavor by tasting a number of the jams, or pick up one of the light meals also on sale.

The store's Wild Blueberry Compote comes highly recommended, having won first prize at the Mondo Selection in April 2009. The jam is best eaten with St. Cousair original crackers, which can be sampled in-store.

Come and enjoy the atmosphere of a typical Japanese shopping mall, where you can find everything from a supermarket to interior design and hobby stores. There is even a shop full of colorfully designed homewares where everything is JPY 315. Finally, the mall's food court offers visitors a wide selection of cuisine, ensuring that everyone finds just what they want to eat, no problem!

This stylish city hotel has a resort feel, and was designed based on a lush Western-style garden. The hotel offers the best features of the Tohoku region of Japan as well as European styling, relaxing rooms, and Japanese, Chinese and Western restaurants.

Visitors can also make use of conveniently placed Internet computer terminals and Seven Bank ATMs, which accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, JCB and Ginren Cards.

[Information] Sendai-Izumi Premium OutletsSendai-Izumi Premium Outlets Official Site
6-1-1, Teraoka, Izumi-Ku, Sendai-Shi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Tel: 022-355-5310

Click here to view & print a coupon for 10% off select items at the Sendai-Izumi Premium Outlet! (Please present coupon to the Information Center located on the first floor. Some stores not included in offer.)

Opening hours:
10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
(Cafes: 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
Opening hours vary by season and by establishment.　

Access:
Train/Bus - From JR Sendai Station take the underground train headed for Izumi Chuo. After 15 minutes get off at Izumi Chuo Station. From there, take the Miyakoh Bus headed for Izumi Park Town via Teraoka Murosakiyama. After 20 minutes, get off at the Teraoka 1-chome Kita/Izumi Outlet bus stop. The shopping center is 3 minutes away on foot.

Discounted round-trip tickets can be purchased for JPY 1,000 from the Miyagi Transport Information Desk at the Sendai Station West Exit Bus Terminal.
Go down staircase 1, and tickets can be purchased at the back of the building.

When you get on the bus, please make sure that you take one of the numbered tickets from the machine at the entrance of the bus (pictured). If you tell the bus driver that you are headed to the "Outlet", they will tell you where to get off.

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