History
Tetaru Station opened on 10 April 1928 on the Miyagi Electric Railway, which was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and became the Senseki Line. The station originally stood on a promontory jutting into Tetaru Cove, part of Matsushima Bay; the route to Takagimachi crossed the bay surface itself. Freight ended in 1956 and parcel handling in 1958, with full de-staffing that year. Reclamation of the surrounding cove began in 1956 and was completed in 1968, leaving the station ringed by rice paddies rather than sea. JR East took over at privatisation in 1987. Service was suspended by the 2011 disaster and restored along the whole Senseki Line on 30 May 2015; Senseki-Tōhoku Line trains do not stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A 1956–1968 reclamation project transformed the station's setting from a cove-side promontory into farmland; the railway that once crossed open water now runs across paddy fields.