History
Higashi-Shiogama Station opened on 18 April 1927 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and the station was renamed Higashi-Shiogama (with the alternative character form 東塩竈) to match the wider rename. It reverted to the simplified spelling on 25 May 1963. Freight handling ended in October 1965 and parcel handling in July 1970. The station was relocated to its present site on 1 November 1981 in conjunction with line doubling, and was absorbed into the JR East network at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. An elevator opened on 5 March 2011, and the station became a JR East Tohoku Sogo Service contract station on 1 April 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.