Sawada Station

Sawada Station 沢田駅
Sawada Station, February 2007
Location	Sawada 1714, Ishinomaki, Miyagi （宮城県石巻市沢田字沢田1714） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Ishinomaki Line
History
Opened	1939

Sawada Station (沢田駅, Sawada eki) is a railway station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Sawada Station is served by the Ishinomaki Line, and is located 37.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kogota Station.

Station layout

Sawada Station has one side platform, serving traffic in both directions. The station is unattended.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Ishinomaki Line
Mangokuura		Local		Urashuku

History

Sawada Station opened on October 7, 1939. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. Operations of the line and the station were suspended by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Services were resumed on March 16, 2013; but remained suspended on the portion from Urashuku to Onagawa until March 21, 2015.

Surrounding area

Japan National Route 398
Mangokuura Port

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sawada Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Ishinomaki Line

Kogota Kami-Wakuya Wakuya Maeyachi Kakeyama Kanomata Sobanokami Ishinomaki Rikuzen-Inai Watanoha Mangoku-Ura Sawada Urashuku Onagawa

Coordinates: 38°25′56″N 141°22′56″E / 38.432352°N 141.382361°E / 38.432352; 141.382361

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