History
Yamashita Station opened on 10 May 1949 on the Jōban Line in what is now the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi, after a long campaign by local residents who had lobbied for a stop since the late 1890s. The station was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and Suica became valid on 26 October 2003. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami inundated the original station and forced its closure; following an inland realignment of the Jōban Line, an elevated replacement station opened approximately one kilometre west on 10 December 2016. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket window closed on 31 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Locals first petitioned for a station here in 1898, but the stop did not open until 1949 — more than fifty years after the original lobbying began.