History
Hon-Shiogama Station opened on 14 April 1926 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway at a site now occupied by the Ichibankan building. Within months it was briefly renamed Kari-Hon-Shiogama before reverting to Hon-Shiogama on 26 August 1926. After the Miyagi Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 May 1944 the station was renamed Hon-Shiokama (本塩竈), and the simplified spelling Hon-Shiogama was restored on 25 May 1963. On 1 November 1981 the line was double-tracked and elevated and the station was relocated to its present site. It was absorbed into JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. On 11 March 2011 the Tōhoku tsunami struck the first floor of the station; a partial restoration on 19 April 2011 reopened service as far as Higashi-Shiogama, with markers showing an inundation height of around 170 cm.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.