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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 31 museums
Best museums in Sendai
The 10 most notable museums in Sendai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
青葉城資料展示館
宮城県仙台市青葉区川内１
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.302, percentile 100 of 31
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2
晩翠画廊
宮城県仙台市青葉区国分町２丁目３−１３
386 m from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.297, percentile 96.67 of 31
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3
地底の森ミュージアム
宮城県仙台市太白区長町南４丁目３−１
381 m from Nagamachi-Minami Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.286, percentile 93.33 of 31
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4
仙台市歴史民俗資料館
宮城野区五輪1丁目3-7
462 m from Tsutsujigaoka Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.283, percentile 90 of 31
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5
東北大学総合学術博物館
青葉区荒巻字青葉6-3
366 m from Aobayama Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.277, percentile 86.67 of 31
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6
仙台市戦災復興記念館
宮城県仙台市青葉区大町２丁目１２−１
296 m from Omachi Nishi-koen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.271, percentile 83.33 of 31
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7
中本誠司現代美術館
青葉区東勝山2丁目20-15
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.226, percentile 80 of 31
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8
仙台市電保存館
太白区富沢字中河原2-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.194, percentile 76.67 of 31
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9
東北大学理学部
青葉区荒巻字青葉6-3
350 m from Aobayama Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.192, percentile 73.33 of 31
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10
八幡杜の館
宮城県仙台市青葉区八幡３丁目１−１１
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.189, percentile 70 of 31
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).