History
Fukudamachi Station opened on 1925-06-05 as a station of the Miyagi Electric Railway. The siting of Fukudamachi and the neighbouring Rikuzen-Takasago Station was contested between the Fukudamachi side and Fukumuro on the opposite bank of the Nanakita River. The railway initially planned to build at Fukudamachi but stalled on land-purchase prices, prompting Fukumuro to offer land at no cost; Fukudamachi residents responded by setting firecrackers on the railway bridge and confronting railway offices, and both stations finally opened together. Wartime nationalisation on 1944-05-01 placed it under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and it passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. The station became a contracted-operation station under JR East Tōhoku Sōgō Service on 2011-07-01 — three months later than planned, after the Great East Japan Earthquake delayed the original April handover.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the present platform cannot accept lifts, in February 2020 the City of Sendai and JR East agreed to relocate the station some 200 m west, near the Miyagino sub-depot of Sendai Rolling Stock Centre, with a target opening year of 2034.