History
Naruko-Gotenyu Station opened on 25 January 1952 as Higashi-Naruko Station (東鳴子駅) on the Rikuu East Line in what is now the city of Ōsaki, Miyagi. Parcel handling ended on 7 March 1983, when the station lost its dedicated staff. It became part of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and was renamed to its present form on 22 March 1997. A new single-storey wooden station building, designed to evoke Shōwa-era nostalgia, was completed in September 2004. Day-to-day operations are now contracted to a local association tied to the Higashi-Naruko Onsen inn cooperative.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station takes its current name from the goten-yu, a private bath house once reserved for the lords of the Sendai domain at neighbouring Higashi-Naruko Onsen.