History
Nishi-Shiogama Station opened on 5 June 1925 as a stop on the privately built Miyagi Electric Railway, in what is today the city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and the station passed to East Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. It serves the Senseki Line 15.2 rail kilometres from the terminus at Aoba-dōri. The station became unstaffed full-time from December 2020, and in December 2023 the automatic ticket gates were removed in favour of simple Suica readers — an unusual reversal of upgrades for a JR East suburban station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the line was extended to East-Shiogama in 1981, Nishi-Shiogama was one of the turnaround points where Senseki Line trains reversed direction.