Taishido, Sendai — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Taishido?

One name carries Taishidō, and it belongs to the railway. Taishidō Station opened on 18 March 2007 as an elevated stop with a single island platform serving two tracks, long enough for nine cars, and it exists because Sendai and the Urban Renaissance Agency petitioned JR East for it while the Asuto Nagamachi redevelopment was going up on the old depot land immediately north. Four city parks hold the rest of the ground: Taishidō Park at Taishidō 2-28, Taishidō-mae Park at Taishidō 9-13, Taishidō-minami Park at Taishidō 310-12, and a fourth at Taishidō 527-7.

No hall of Prince Shōtoku survives. The name comes from a hokora that once enshrined him inside what is now the district, and the building it stood in is long gone.

What is the history of Taishido?

The place-name is older than the town that carries it. Taishidō was cut on 6 July 1981 from parts of Kōriyama, Nagamachi and Ōnoda, when residential address notation reached the Tomizawa and Nagamachi-minami blocks, and the notice appeared nine days later. Before that the ground had been shared between three villages of Natori District: Kōriyama, Hiraoka and Ōnoda.

It passed to Sendai Prefecture with the abolition of the domains in 1871 and was renamed into Miyagi Prefecture the year after; the 1889 municipal reform split it between Shigegasaki and Nishitaga, and annexation by annexation the whole of it had become Sendai by 1932. Taihaku-ku followed on 1 April 1989. A land readjustment decision of 1995 put part of the district under the Nagamachi sub-centre scheme, the station opened in 2007, and the town boundary was redrawn once more in 2010.

Where is Taishido?

Taishidō holds the eastern edge of Taihaku-ku, a strip pinched between the old channel of the Zaru River and the Tōhoku Main Line, with Suwamachi to the east, Ōnoda wrapping the west and south, and Nagamachi, Nagamachi-minami and Asuto Nagamachi closing the north.