Nakanosakae

Known weekday departures: 219/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 166/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:33 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 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 5 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Senseki Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Senseki Line: Tagajo ⇄ Rikuzen-Takasago

Nakanosakae Station opened on 1 April 1981 as a Japanese National Railways station on the Senseki Line. It was transferred to JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 23 January 2003 and Suica acceptance followed on 26 October 2003. A south-side rotary was completed in 2007 and departure bells began operating on 1 February 2008. From 1 October 2012 the station shifted from a directly-staffed Tagajō-managed stop to a JR East Tohoku Sogo Service contract station. Lift access was completed in March 2015, and the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office closed on 15 April 2022.

The section between this station and Aoba-dōri Station is designated as a substitute-transport route for when Senseki Line service is suspended, and this station is designated for substitute-ticket transfers with Arai Station on the Sendai Municipal Subway Tōzai Line.