Matsushima Station

Matsushima 松島
Matsushima Station, November 2007
Location	Konashiya,　Matsushima, Matsushima, Miyagi, Miyagi （岩手県宮城郡松島町松島字小梨屋） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Main Line
History
Opened	1956
Previous names	Shin-Matsushima (until 1962)

Matsushima Station (松島駅, Matsushima-eki) is a railway station on the Tōhoku Main Line in Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). This station is about 1 km from Takagimachi Station and about 2 km away from Matsushima-Kaigan Station on the Senseki Line. Of the three, Matsushima-Kaigan is the station closest to most tourist destinations.

Lines

Matsushima Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 375.2 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Matsushima Station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Shiogama, Sendai, Shiroishi, and Fukushima
2	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for starting trains in both directions
3	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Kogota and Ichinoseki

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tōhoku Main Line
Shiogama		Local		Atago

History

Matsushima Station opened on July 9, 1956 as Shin-Matsushima Station (新松島駅, Shin-Matsushima-eki), having been elevated from a signal stop established on November 15, 1944, when the routing of the Tohoku Main Line was moved away from the coastline due to security concerns in World War II (the original Matsushima Station, established on April 16, 1944 was renamed "former Matsushima Station" and was closed in 1962). The station was renamed to its present name on July 1, 1962. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Surrounding area

Matsushima Town Hall
Matsushima Post Office
National Route 45

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Matsushima Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Tōhoku Main Line

Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)	Ueno Oku Akabane Urawa Saitama-Shintoshin Ōmiya Toro Higashi-Ōmiya Hasuda Shiraoka Shin-Shiraoka Kuki Higashi-Washinomiya Kurihashi Koga Nogi Mamada Oyama Koganei Jichiidai Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Utsunomiya Okamoto Hōshakuji Ujiie Kamasusaka Kataoka Yaita Nozaki Nishi-Nasuno Nasushiobara Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka	Kuroiso Takaku Kurodahara Toyohara Shirasaka Shin-Shirakawa Shirakawa Kutano Izumizaki Yabuki Kagamiishi Sukagawa Asaka-Nagamori Kōriyama Hiwada Gohyakugawa Motomiya Sugita Nihonmatsu Adachi Matsukawa Kanayagawa Minami-Fukushima Fukushima Higashi-Fukushima Date Koori Fujita Kaida Kosugō Shiroishi Higashi-Shiroishi Kita-Shirakawa Ōgawara Funaoka Tsukinoki Iwanuma Tatekoshi Natori Minami-Sendai Taishidō Nagamachi Sendai Higashi-Sendai Iwakiri (Shin-Rifu Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō Kokufu-Tagajō Shiogama Matsushima Atago Shinainuma Kashimadai Matsuyama-Machi Kogota Tajiri Semine Umegasawa Nitta Ishikoshi Yushima Hanaizumi Shimizuhara Arikabe Ichinoseki Yamanome Hiraizumi Maesawa Rikuchū-Orii Mizusawa Kanegasaki Rokuhara Kitakami Murasakino Hanamaki Hanamaki Airport Ishidoriya Hizume Shiwachūō Furudate Yahaba Iwate-Iioka Senbokuchō Morioka

Coordinates: 38°22′51″N 141°03′59″E / 38.3807°N 141.0665°E / 38.3807; 141.0665

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