History
Nishi-Ōsaki Station opened on 20 April 1960 as Kami-Iwadeyama Station (上岩出山駅) on the Rikuu East Line, in the city of Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network when Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987, and renamed to its present form, Nishi-Ōsaki Station, on 22 March 1997. The station sits 21.9 rail kilometres from the Rikuu East Line's terminus at Kogota Station. It has a single side platform serving one bi-directional track, no station building, and is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.