History
Nobiru Station opened on 10 April 1928 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway, established by company president Yamamoto Toyoji to develop the calm-water Sunzaki-hama coast and the Oku-Matsushima area as a seaside resort. It was renamed Tōhoku-Suma in October 1931 in homage to Suma in Hyōgo Prefecture, then changed back to Nobiru when the line was nationalized on 1 May 1944. The station was destroyed by the tsunami of the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. The relocated rebuilt station opened roughly 500 m inland on a 22 m high site on 30 May 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The pre-tsunami station building was preserved and reopened on 1 October 2016 as the Higashi-Matsushima Earthquake Disaster Reconstruction Memorial Hall, with the ground floor used as an exhibition and exchange space and the second floor showing panels and video on the disaster.