International Center

History

International Center Station opened on 2015-12-06 with the rest of the Sendai City Subway Tōzai Line. Built into the river terrace of the Hirose River, the station sits where the tracks cross from Ōmachi-Nishi-Kōen via the Nishi-Kōen viaduct and the Hirose River bridge and then enter underground at the bluff. The building covers 4,310 m² over two above-ground floors and one basement; the second-floor public space was named Aoba-no-Kaze Terrace through a public competition in 2016. A secondary name, Sendai-jō-ato Iriguchi (Sendai Castle Site Entrance), reflects its role as the access station for the castle ruins and the Sendai International Center. A figure-skating monument honouring Sendai natives Shizuka Arakawa and Yuzuru Hanyū, both Olympic gold medallists, was installed in front of the station on 2017-04-18.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

In March 2015, before the station opened to passengers, the building was pressed into service as the reception venue for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.