For people who want to freely and rapidly tour city center sights while enjoying the atmosphere of the bus.
The Loople, a tourist bus in Sendai, can be boarded and exited any number of times with a 1-day pass and offers the ideal way to explore the sights of Sendai.

• Loople Sendai bus service information Doko-Bus Sendai (Japanese Site)

Route Map

Buses tour Sendai's tourist spots and can be boarded and exited freely. Since you are free to board and get off the Loople Sendai as you please, you can explore Sendai in a quick hour or spend the whole day touring at your own pace.
This makes Loople Sendai a convenient city touring bus.

Loople Sendai Route Map(PDF: 1320KB)

Tourist Guide

Discounts can be received at the following facilities by showing your 1-day pass.

Sightseeing

• Aoba Castle Artifacts Museum (6)
• Zuihoden (Mausoleum) (4)
• Sendai City Museum (5)
• The Miyagi Museum of Art (9)

(Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of the nearest Loople bus stop).

Eating

• Salix (inside Miyagi Museum of Art) (9)
• Zelkova (inside Miyagi Museum of Art) (9)
• Sendai Excel Hotel Tokyu (3)
• Hotel Sendai Plaza (11)

(Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of the nearest Loople bus stop).

The following facilities are closed on Mondays.

• Bansuisodo (3)
• Sendai City Museum (5)
• Tohoku University Botanical Garden (7)
• Natural History Specimen Museum (8)
• The Miyagi Museum of Art (9)
• Sendai Mediatheque City Library (10)

(Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of the nearest Loople bus stop).

Please note that all websites are linked to the Japanese Home pages.

Telephone Guide

Contains a lot of useful and seasonal tourist information

Tourist Information

• Sendai Tourism and Convention Bureau　022-268-9603
• Akiu Hot Springs Tourism Information Center　022-398-2323
• Miyagi District Tourism Information Center　022-395-2052
• Sendai City General Tourism Information Center　022-222-4069

Hotel Information

• JR Sendai Hotel & Ryokan Booking Center　022-222-5262

Please note that all websites are linked to the Japanese Home pages.

<Loople Sendai> Guide

• Buses start from Sendai Station and tour Sendai's central tourist spots in roughly 1 hour. Services start at 9:00 and end with the 16:00 service. The service timetable is given below.

Timetable

Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays from April to July, from September to March and all days August
...Services operate every 15 minutes. 15 minute timetable (Japanese) (PDF: 45KB)

Weekdays from April to July, from September to March
... Services operate every 20 minutes. 20 minute timetable (Japanese) (PDF: 44KB)

Since passengers are free to board and get off as they please, they are free to schedule destinations and times as they like.

• Board Loople buses from the middle door and get off at the front. Fares are paid by putting the 1-day pass (card) through the machine or paying a single ride fare in cash.
• From Sendai Station, buses leave from the No. 15-3 stop in the west entrance bus pool (there are multiple No. 15 bus stops).

1-day Pass Sales Counters

• Sendai Station West Entrance Bus Pool Information Center
• Sendai Station Tourism and Convention Bureau
• Sendai Workers' Occupational Welfare Center
• 20 hotels in Sendai (front desks)
  Hotel com's Sendai, Hotel Metropolitan Sendai, Koyo Grand Hotel, Holiday Inn Sendai, Sendai Kokusai Hotel, Sendai Excel Hotel Tokyu, Hotel Sun Route Sendai, Sendai Hotel, Hotel Sendai Plaza, Hotel Monterey Sendai, Hotel JAL City Sendai, Dormy Inn Sendai, Hotel Hokke Club Sendai, Apa Villa Hotel Sendai Eki Itsutsubashi, Apa Hotel Sendai Kotodai Koen, Hotel Central Sendai, Hotel Universe Sendai, R&B Hotel Sendai Hirosedori Ekimae, Oka No Hotel, Hotel Jozenji

※1-day pass holders have unlimited use of buses on the day of use.
※The single ride fare is the same regardless of the distance covered.

Distinction between Adults and Children and Child Fares

• Adult fares apply from 12 years of age (junior high school students). Child fares apply to children aged between 1 and 11.
• Fares for children between graduation from elementary school and entry to junior high school are as follows.
  (1) Child fares apply after graduation from elementary school until March 31 of that year.
  (2) Adult fares apply before the entrance ceremony for junior high school from April 1 that year.
• Fare is not required for:
  - Infants under 12 months old.
  - Preschool children (1-5 years) accompanying 1 passenger (6 years or older).

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