History
Ayashi Station opened on 1929-09-29 as the terminus of the Senzan-Tōsen Line, the eastern segment of what later became the Senzan Line. Built near the Sekiyama-kaidō post town of Ayashi-juku, it served as the central station for Hirose village in Miyagi-gun and carried a locomotive turntable on site. The line was extended west to Sakunami on 1931-08-30, and the full Senzan Line opened on 1937-11-10, making Ayashi an intermediate station. Freight handling ended on 1971-04-01, and the station passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. It was selected in 2002 as one of the Hundred Stations of Tōhoku, and on 2018-01-20 the original wooden building was replaced by a steel-framed single-storey structure. The station carries the secondary name Akiu Onsen-guchi, and most trains from Sendai still terminate here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 7 December 2001 the station drew long queues of collectors buying platform tickets after the announcement that Princess Toshi (Aiko) would share her name with the station; some 33,200 tickets were sold over five days.