History
Nitta Station opened on 4 January 1894 as a stop on the Nippon Railway in what is now the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture. The Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906, transferring the station to the government-run network. It was destaffed on 1 December 1984, and with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East. The station became wholly unattended on 16 March 2019. Work to replace the station building, the oldest in service on the Tōhoku Main Line within the JR East Sendai branch, began in April 2021; a temporary structure was used from late June 2021 until the new building opened on 26 December 2021. The station has one island and one side platform connected by footbridge, with one track on the island disused.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because Nara Line also has a station called Nitta, tickets sold at the Miyagi station are imprinted with a distinguishing prefix "(North) Nitta" to prevent confusion.