History
Onagawa Station is the terminal stop of the Ishinomaki Line in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, operated by JR East. The station opened on 7 October 1939 as a Ministry of Railways facility, replacing an earlier Kinkasan Tramway station that had operated since 1926. The station was absorbed into JR East at the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 and was selected as one of the "100 Stations of Tōhoku" in October 2002. Operations were suspended after the 11 March 2011 tsunami, which destroyed the station building and surrounding tracks. The reconstructed station reopened approximately 150 metres inland on 21 March 2015, restoring service across the entire line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The 2015 station building, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban, integrates a community centre and the Yupoppo public bath on its upper floors.