Nagamachi Station

Nagamachi Station 長町駅
Entrance to Sendai Subway Nagamachi Station, July 2005
Location	5 Nagamachi, Taihaku, Sendai, Miyagi （岩手県宮太白区長町五丁目） Japan
Operated by	JR East Sendai Subway
Line(s)	Tohoku Main Line Joban Line Nanboku Line
Other information
Station code	N15 (Nanboku Line)
History
Opened	1896
Traffic

Passengers (FY2013)	7,623 (JR East) 6,188 (Sendai Subway) daily

Nagamachi Station (長町駅, Nagamachi-eki) is railway station on the Tohoku Main Line in Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Sendai Subway.

Lines

Nagamachi Station is served by the Sendai Subway Nanboku Line, and on JR East's Joban Line and Tohoku Main Line. The Sendai Airport Access Line uses the same tracks, but passes through the station without stopping. The subway and JR lines are not directly connected; however, the distance between the two stations is only around two hundred metres. It is 347.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Tohoku Main Line at Tokyo Station and 12.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Sendai Subway Namboku Line at Izumi- Chūō Station.

Station layout

JR Nagamachi Station is an elevated station with one island platform, and the station building located underneath. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office. The Sendai Subway portion of the station has a single underground island platform.

JR East platforms

1	■ Tohoku Main Line	for Sendai, Rifu, Matsushima, and Kogota
2	■ Tohoku Main Line	for Shiroishi and Fukushima
2	■ Joban Line	for Iwanuma and Hamayoshida

The Sendai Subway platforms in October 2015

Sendai Subway platforms

1	■ Sendai Subway	for Tomizawa
2	■ Sendai Subway	for Sendai and Izumi-Chūō

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Tohoku Main Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Taishidō	Local	Sendai
Joban Line
Taishidō	Local	Sendai
Sendai Subway
Nagamachi-Itchōme	Local	Nagamachi-Minami

History

Nagamachi Station opened on November 2, 1894 as a military station of Nippon Railway.^[1] It was opened to the general public on February 21, 1896.^[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.^[1] The subway station opened on June 15, 1987.

Surrounding area

National Route 4
National Route 286
Sendai-Taihaihaku Ward Office
Sendai-Nitta Post Office

References

1 2 3 Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). 停車場変遷大事典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese) II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 405. ISBN 4533029809.

External links

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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

Stations of the Jōban Line

Freight Line: Tabata; Mikawashima; Minami-Senju

Stations served only by the Chiyoda Line through service local trains between Kita-Senju and Abiko are omitted.

Stations of the Sendai Subway Namboku Line

Izumi-Chūō Yaotome Kuromatsu Asahigaoka Dainohara Kita-Sendai Kita-Yobanchō Kōtōdai-Kōen Hirose-dōri Sendai Itsutsubashi Atagobashi Kawaramachi Nagamachi-Itchōme Nagamachi Nagamachi-Minami Tomizawa

Coordinates: 38°13′35″N 140°53′8″E / 38.22639°N 140.88556°E / 38.22639; 140.88556

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