is a

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in the city of

Higashimatsushima is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 39,580 in 16102 households, and a population density of 390 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Higashi-Matsushima (lit. "East Matsus ...

Miyagi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,265,724 (1 August 2023) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akit ...

, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in ...

(JR East).

Lines

Rikuzen-Ono Station is served by the

Senseki Line The is a railway line in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Aoba-dōri Station in Sendai to Ishinomaki Station in Ishinomaki, and provides access to the central coast areas of ...

. It is located 36.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at

Aoba-dōri Station is a JR East railway station located in Aoba-ku in Sendai, Miyagi. Its official English name is Aobadori Avenue. There is a direct transfer gate between the platform of this station to the platform of the Sendai Subway Namboku Line in Sendai ...

Station layout

The station has one

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serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

Platforms

History

Rikuzen-Ono Station opened on April 10, 1928, as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The Miyagi Electric Railway was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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on April 1, 1987. The station was closed from March 11, 2011 due to damage to the line associated with the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 Japan Standard Time, JST (05:46:24 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 Submarine earthquake, undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approx ...

, and services were replaced by provisional bus services. The station reopened on March 17, 2012, in the direction of and and a new station building was inaugurated on that date. Services in the direction of Sendai were resumed on May 30, 2015.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 345 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

References

External links

* {{Senseki-Tōhoku Line Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture Senseki Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928 Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Stations of East Japan Railway Company