History
Tōna Station opened on 1 December 1931 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and the station became unstaffed in October 1958; it passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the station on 11 March 2011, and the original site was abandoned. The Rikuzen-Ōtsuka–Rikuzen-Ono stretch — including this stop — was rebuilt roughly 500 metres inland on higher ground, and a relocated Tōna Station reopened on 30 May 2015. The relocation shortened the distance from Aoba-dōri from 32.4 km to 32.2 km. Senseki-Tōhoku Line trains pass without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The reopened station stands about 500 m inland of its pre-2011 site; the relocation actually shortened the timetable distance to Aoba-dōri by 200 m.