History
Sendai Station opened on 15 December 1887 as a stop on the Nippon Railway company's line from Tokyo to Aomori, with its present site chosen after lobbying from city interests in 1886. The original wooden building was replaced in 1894 (2nd generation) and again in 1949 (4th generation); a temporary 5th-generation building followed in 1972, and the current sixth-generation building, integrated with a department store complex, dates from 1977. Tohoku Shinkansen services began on 23 June 1982, and the station became a through-stop with the extension south to Tokyo in 1991. Senseki Line platforms moved underground on 11 March 2000, and Sendai Subway Tōzai Line platforms opened on 6 December 2015. Today the station handles every Tohoku, Akita and Hokkaido Shinkansen service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Air services between Sendai Airport and Haneda were dropped in 1985 once the Shinkansen reached Ueno; since then the new line has had a monopoly on fast travel between Sendai and the capital.