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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 21 travel services
Best travel services in Sendai
The 10 most notable travel services 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
富谷宿観光交流ステーション とみやど
Shinmachi-111-1 Tomiya
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.380, percentile 100 of 21
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2
JTB Travel Gate Sendai
Central, 3 Chome−8−1 T-plus仙台 1階
62 m from arrêt Chūō San-chōme, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.373, percentile 95 of 21
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3
Sendai Tourist Information Desk
Ichibancho, 3 Chome−2−17 Fujisaki main bldg 1F
57 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 0.99 · rank score 2.313, percentile 90 of 21
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4
仙台市総合観光案内所
青葉区中央1丁目1-1
27 m from Sendai Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.306, percentile 85 of 21
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5
まちくる仙台
青葉区一番町3-2-1 株式会社藤崎Ⅲ 2階
36 m from Hirose-dōri Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.188, percentile 80 of 21
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6
たびのレシピ
太白区あすと長町1丁目4-50
220 m from Nagamachi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.085, percentile 75 of 21
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7
一般社団法人月山朝日観光協会
山形県西村山郡西川町水沢2304
419 m from arrêt Odawara Itchōme, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.050, percentile 70 of 21
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8
仙台バスツアーズ株式会社
宮城県仙台市青葉区国分町2丁目1−15
372 m from Kōtōdai-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.033, percentile 65 of 21
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9
JTB Aeon Mall Shinrifu Minamikan
Shinnakamichi, 3-chome−1−1 イオンモール新利府南館 2階
621 m from Shin-Rifu Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.995, percentile 60 of 21
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10
泉PA
泉区野村上野前中21-2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.984, percentile 55 of 21
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).