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Miyaginohara Station

Coordinates: 38°15′40″N 140°54′19″E / 38.2611°N 140.9052°E / 38.2611; 140.9052
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Miyaginohara Station

宮城野原駅
Entrance to Miyaginohara Station, May 2006
General information
Location2-4-1 Miyagino, Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 983-0045
Japan
Coordinates38°15′40″N 140°54′19″E / 38.2611°N 140.9052°E / 38.2611; 140.9052
Operated by JR East
Line(s) Senseki Line
Distance2.4 km from Aoba-dōri
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
StatusStaffed (Midori no Madoguchi)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened1 January 1925
Rebuilt2000
Passengers
FY20186,070 daily
Services
Preceding station Logo of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) JR East Following station
Tsutsujigaoka
towards Aoba-dori
Senseki Line Rikuzen-Haranomachi
towards Ishinomaki
Location
Miyaginohara Station is located in Miyagi Prefecture
Miyaginohara Station
Miyaginohara Station
Location within Miyagi Prefecture
Miyaginohara Station is located in Japan
Miyaginohara Station
Miyaginohara Station
Miyaginohara Station (Japan)

Miyaginohara Station (宮城野原駅, Miyaginohara-eki) is an underground railway station on the Senseki Line in Miyagino-ku in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

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Miyaginohara Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 2.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri.

Station layout

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The station is an underground station with one island platform serving two tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. As the station is the closest railway station to Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi, home of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, logos of the team, images of their players, as well as art of their mascots, Clutch and Clutchyna, are shown prominently in the station, as well as having the model of the team's cap on top of the entrance. Clutch is drawn in the platform for the 2nd platform, while Clutchyna is drawn on the 1st platform.

Platforms

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1  Senseki Line for Tagajō, Matsushima-Kaigan, and Takagimachi
2  Senseki Line for Sendai and Aoba-dōri

History

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Miyaginohara Station opened on January 1, 1926, as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was relocated underground in 2000, some 150 meters to the southeast of its former location. On March 26, 2010, the station added its own departure melody, which is a part of the theme song of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.[1]

Passenger statistics

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In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 6,070 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]

Surrounding area

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  2. ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2018年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2018)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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