History
Sakamoto Station in Yamamoto, Miyagi opened on 10 November 1897 as a station of the private Nippon Railway, and passed to the state when the company was nationalised on 1 November 1906. The 1909 line-naming reform placed it on the Jōban Line. It was absorbed into JR East with the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the original building, and services between Hamayoshida and Sōma stations were suspended. The station was rebuilt about 1.1 km inland and reopened on 10 December 2016 as a single-platform elevated stop with the station office underneath.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the rebuilt station reopened in December 2016, the kilometric distance to neighbouring Yamashita Station grew by 0.4 km to 4.9 km, and the distance to Shinchi Station grew by 0.1 km to 5.5 km, reflecting the route's new inland alignment.