Sendai Bay
| Sendai Bay | ||
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 Sendai Bay |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | Honshu | |
| Geographical location | 38 ° 10 ′ N , 141 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| width | 70 km | |
| depth | 30 km | |
| surface | 1 800 km² | |
| Coastline | 130 km | |
| Tributaries | Kyū-Kitakami-gawa , Naruse-gawa , Natori-gawa , Abukuma-gawa , ... | |
The Sendai Bay ( Japanese 仙台湾 Sendai-wan ) is a bay of the Pacific Ocean off the northern Japanese ( Tōhoku ) coast.
geography
It stretches along the southern part of Miyagi Prefecture for about 130 km from the Oshika Peninsula to Cape Unoosaki. The northern part from the Oshika Peninsula to Miyato-jima Island is also called Ishinomaki Bay ( 石 巻 湾 Ishinomaki-wan ). Miyato-jima and the Shichigahama peninsula in turn separate Matsushima Bay ( 松 松 湾 Matsushima-wan ), which houses the Matsushima group of islands.
With the exception of Matsushima Bay, the bay is characterized by its sandy beaches.
Across the bay, the Ishinomaki- (are 石巻平野 Ishinomaki-heiya ) and Sendai plains ( 仙台平野 Sendai heiya ) by the rivers of 1st order Kyū-Kitakami-gawa , Naruse-gawa , Natori-gawa and Abukuma-gawa crisscrossed that drain into the bay.