Fukudamachi

Weekday departures: 218/day · Sat & holiday departures: 165/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:34 / 23:53

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (22)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Senseki Line: Rikuzen-Takasago ⇄ Kozurushinden

Fukudamachi Station opened on 1925-06-05 as a station of the Miyagi Electric Railway. The siting of Fukudamachi and the neighbouring Rikuzen-Takasago Station was contested between the Fukudamachi side and Fukumuro on the opposite bank of the Nanakita River. The railway initially planned to build at Fukudamachi but stalled on land-purchase prices, prompting Fukumuro to offer land at no cost; Fukudamachi residents responded by setting firecrackers on the railway bridge and confronting railway offices, and both stations finally opened together. Wartime nationalisation on 1944-05-01 placed it under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and it passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. The station became a contracted-operation station under JR East Tōhoku Sōgō Service on 2011-07-01 — three months later than planned, after the Great East Japan Earthquake delayed the original April handover.

Because the present platform cannot accept lifts, in February 2020 the City of Sendai and JR East agreed to relocate the station some 200 m west, near the Miyagino sub-depot of Sendai Rolling Stock Centre, with a target opening year of 2034.