Sendai is the largest city (about 1,000,000 people) in the Tohoku region of Japan’s Honshu island. Sendai is divided into five districts: Aoba-ku, Izumi-ku, Miyagino-ku, Taihaku-ku and Wakabayashi-ku. As everyone here will tell you, it's not too big and not too small, it's very convenient and it's close to both the sea and the mountains. Sendai is a comfortable and pleasant city ??? it's a nice place to live. It's very green ??? in fact they call it (Mori no Miyako, Forest City). The main avenues around the city are wide and tree-lined, giving the city an almost European feel. The main shopping street ??? confusingly known by two different names, Chuo-dori and Clis Road ??? is pedestrianised and covered, so it feels like a mall. Several large universities are located in Sendai, attracting young adults from throughout the Tohoku area.