History
Shiroishi Station opened on 15 December 1887 in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture, on what later became the Tōhoku Main Line. In October 1935 the Shōei-jidōsha Hakuchū motor coach line linking the station to Nakamura Station on the Jōban Line began service. A reinforced-concrete station building replaced the original in May 1959, funded entirely by Shiroishi City's purchase of railway utility bonds. The station was twinned with Shiroishi Station on the Hakodate Main Line in Hokkaidō on 25 October 1970, and it transferred to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. It was named one of the Top 100 Tōhoku Railway Stations in 2002. Day-to-day operation was outsourced under management of Shiroishi-Zaō Station on 1 April 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Shiroishi is the closest station to Shiroishi Castle — a stronghold spared by the Tokugawa shogunate's one-domain-one-castle order — and the link earned it inclusion in the Top 100 Tōhoku Railway Stations in 2002. Because JR East operates two other stations with the same name (on the Hakodate Main Line in Hokkaidō and the Hisatsu Line in Kumamoto), tickets issued here are marked "(北)白石" with the Tōhoku Main Line prefix.