Mount Dainenji

What it is

• A 120-meter mountain in Sendai formerly known as Noguchi-yama or Mogasaki.
• Site of the ancestral graves belonging to the powerful Date clan.
• Home to the Sendai City Wild Grass Garden which opened in 1954.
• Location of a large Obaku Zen temple founded in the year 1697.

What to see

• Several groups of ancient horizontal cave tombs built into the mountain.
• Three television towers on the peak that feature award-winning landscape lighting.
• The Sendai City Wild Grass Garden containing various local plant species.
• Historical site of the medieval Mogasaki Castle.
• Tohoku Institute of Technology Nagamachi Campus located on the southwest slope.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.