Kawauchi (Miyagi)

Known weekday departures: 280/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 225/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:40 / 24:05 (00:05 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (22)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Sendai Tozai Line: International Center ⇄ Aobayama

Kawauchi Station is an underground station on the Sendai Subway Tōzai Line in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, operated by the Sendai City Transportation Bureau. The provisional station name was disclosed in October 2000, construction began in 2009, and the final name was officially announced on 24 December 2013. The station opened to passengers on 6 December 2015, the day the entire Tōzai Line entered service. It carries the station number T03 and bears the subsidiary name "Tōhoku University Kawauchi Campus-mae".

Kawauchi Station serves Tohoku University's Kawauchi campus directly through its South 1 and South 2 exits, with the station's subsidiary name advertising the campus connection. When it opened in 2015, daily boardings were forecast at 1,265, but actual fiscal-2023 boardings reached 3,542 — nearly triple the original projection.