History
Morisekinoshita Station opened on 18 March 2007, the day the third-sector Sendai Airport Transit company inaugurated through service on the Sendai Airport Line between Natori and the new Sendai Airport terminus. The provisional working name had been "Sekishita Station," but the operator settled on the present name in August 2005, drawing on the surrounding place name and Sendai's poetic epithet "Mori no Miyako." The line was severed by the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and remained suspended for nearly seven months, reopening on 1 October 2011. The elevated platform was built ready for future twin-tracking, with a sealed-off second side reserved for later expansion.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The southern side of the platform was built with track and signalling provision so the single-line halt can be converted to a passing loop without rebuilding the elevated structure.