---
name: "Sendai City Science Museum"
lat: 38.2987
lng: 140.8832
official_url: "https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/"
fee: "Permanent exhibition: ¥550 for adults, ¥320 for high school students, ¥210 for primary and junior-high pupils. Pre-school children are free when accompanied by a guardian. Groups of 30 or more pay ¥430 / ¥260 / ¥170. Special exhibitions are charged separately. Children up to junior-high get in free on Children's Day, and everyone gets in free on Culture Day. Payment is cash or cashless on the day only — no coupons, no later transfer. With a same-day ticket you can go in and out as often as you like"
last_verified: "2026-08-14"
---

# Sendai City Science Museum

The third floor, remade in 2025, holds seven zones. In Challenge Lab you can stand inside a giant soap bubble or push magnetic fluid about with a magnet. A three-meter tornado machine marks the entrance to the disaster zone, whose theatre replays the shaking Sendai recorded in the Tohoku earthquake. The vehicle garage has a real aircraft and a formula car to sit in, plus a subway driving simulator. Upstairs, Miyagi's nature is shown through fossils and specimens you may touch.

- Area: miyagi
- Type: sightseeing
- Average stay: 150 min
- Hours: 9:00-16:45, last admission 16:00. Closed Mondays (open if it is a public holiday), the day after a public holiday (except Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and the day after the second Monday of October), the fourth Thursday (except public holidays and December), and 28 December to 4 January. It can open or close at short notice — check the official closed-days calendar
- Last verified: 2026-08-14

## Family facts (value + conditions + source + verified date)

| Feature | Value | Conditions | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroller friendly | Yes | Strollers are lent out — ask at the main reception. Note the walk from Asahigaoka Station includes a long staircase; use East Exit 1, which has a lift | 2026-08-14 (web) | [source](https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/access/) |
| Nursing space | Yes (3) | Nursing rooms on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors — the 3rd and 4th are by the toilets. For the 2nd-floor room (the sick bay) ask at the office or reception | 2026-08-14 (web) | [source](https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/qa/) |
| Diaper changing table | Yes (3) | Baby beds near the wide-access toilets on the 3rd and 4th floors (east side) and by the 2nd-floor toilets / office (west side) | 2026-08-14 (web) | [source](https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/qa/) |
| Diaper disposal bin | Yes | A nappy bin is provided alongside the baby beds | 2026-08-14 (web) | [source](https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/qa/) |
| Family restroom | Yes | 'Hirobiro' wide-access toilets on every floor. Those on floors 2 to 4 have a baby seat to strap a child into safely | 2026-08-14 (web) | [source](https://www.kagakukan.sendai-c.ed.jp/qa/) |
| Elevator | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Indoor / outdoor | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| English support | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Outside food allowed | Not checked yet |  |  |  |