Sendai Station (Miyagi)

This article is about the station serving Sendai, Miyagi. For the station serving Satsumasendai, Kagoshima, seeSendai Station (Kagoshima).

N10T07 Sendai Station Tiên đài dịch
The west side of Sendai Station in August 2023
General information
Location	1 Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken Japan
Operated by	JR East Sendai Airport Transit Sendai Subway
Line(s)	Tōhoku Shinkansen Akita Shinkansen Tōhoku Main Line Senzan Line Senseki Line ■■Senseki-Tohoku Line Jōban Line Sendai Airport Line Namboku Line Tōzai Line
Connections	Bus terminal
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	N10 (Namboku Line) T07 (Tozai Line)
History
Opened	15 December 1887(1887-12-15)
Passengers
FY2018	91,278 daily (JR East) 55,614 daily (Sendai Subway)
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Ōmiya towardsTokyo Tōhoku Shinkansen Hayabusa Furukawa towardsShin-Aomori Shiroishi-Zaō towardsTokyo Tōhoku Shinkansen Yamabiko Furukawa towardsMorioka Ōmiya towardsTokyo Akita Shinkansen Komachi Morioka towardsAkita Nagamachi towardsFukushima Tōhoku Main Line RapidCity Rabbit Terminus Nagamachi towardsKuroiso Tōhoku Main Line Local Higashi-Sendai towardsMorioka Iwanuma towardsShinagawa Hitachi Terminus Nagamachi towardsShinagawa Jōban Line Local-Futsuu Kita-Sendai towardsYamagata Senzan Line Rapid A B Toshogu towardsYamagata Senzan Line Rapid C Local Terminus Senseki-Tōhoku Line Special Rapid Shiogama towardsOnagawa Senseki-Tōhoku Line Rapid Shiogama towardsIshinomaki Senseki-Tōhoku Line Rapid Higashi-Sendai towardsIshinomaki Aoba-dori Terminus Senseki Line Tsutsujigaoka towardsIshinomaki Preceding station Sendai Subway Following station Itsutsubashi N11 towardsTomizawa Namboku Line Hirose-dori N09 towardsIzumi-Chūō Aoba-dori Ichibancho T06 towardsYagiyama Zoological Park Tōzai Line Miyagino-dori T08 towardsArai Preceding station Sendai Airport Transit Following station Natori towardsSendai Airport Sendai Airport Line Rapid Terminus Nagamachi towardsSendai Airport Sendai Airport Line Local
Location Sendai station Location within Miyagi Prefecture Sendai station Sendai station (Japan)

Sendai Station(Tiên đài dịch,Sendai-eki)is a major junctionrailway stationinAoba-ku,Sendai, Miyagi,Japan. It is a stop for allAkita,Hokkaido,andTohoku Shinkansentrains, the eastern terminus for theSenzan Line,and major stop on both theTohoku Main LineandSenseki Line.It is located on the border betweenMiyaginoandAoba WardsinSendai,Miyagi Prefecture.

Lines

Sendai Station is served by services operated byEast Japan Railway Company(JR East),Sendai Airport Transit,andSendai Subway.The station is served by the following lines.

JR East

• Tōhoku Shinkansen
• Akita Shinkansen
• Tohoku Main Line
• Senzan Line
• Senseki Line
• Joban Line

Sendai Airport Transit

• Sendai Airport Line

Sendai Subway

• Namboku Line
• Tōzai Line

Station layout

Senseki Line underground platforms

JR East

Although the main JR train station and the subway station are physically separate, there are underground passageways connecting the two. The main Sendai Station is above-ground, and is a hub forJR Eastcontaining both theTohokuandAkita Shinkansenlines and several other local lines. The above-ground portion of Sendai Station lies in Aoba-ku, and is situated so that tracks run roughly north–south. In the station's easternmost section, underground and across the ward border in Miyagino-ku, is the platform for the east–westSenseki Line.Originally, this platform was also above ground; but in 2000, the line was extended to Aoba-dōri to the west, and the line was re-routed underground beneath the rest of the station.

Platforms

On the ground level, there are 4 platforms serving 8 tracks. On the 2nd basement, there is an island platform with 2 tracks for the Senseki Line. On the 3rd floor, there is 2 platforms serving 4 tracks of the Tohoku Shinkansen line.

Platform No	Line Name	Direction	Notes
Conventional Line - Ground Level Platforms
1・2	■Tohoku Main Line	forIwakiri・Rifu・Shiogama・Kogota
	■■Senseki Tohoku Line	forIshinomaki
3	■Tohoku Main Line	Iwanuma・Shiroishi・Fukushima	First train from this station departs from here
	■Sendai Airport Line	forSendai Airport
4	■■Senseki Tohoku Line	for Ishinomaki
	■Tohoku Main Line	for Iwakiri・Rifu・Shiogama・Kogota
		for Iwanuma・Shiroishi・Fukushima
	■Joban Line	forWatari・Soma・Haranomachi
	■Sendai Airport Line	for Sendai Airport
5	■■Senseki Tohoku Line	for Ishinomaki
	■Tohoku Main Line	for Iwanuma・Shiroishi・Fukushima
	■Joban Line	for Watari・Soma・Haranomachi
6	■Tohoku Main Line	for Iwanuma・Shiroishi・Fukushima
	■Joban Line	for Watari・Soma・Haranomachi
7・8	■Senzan Line	forAyashi・Sakunami・Yamagata
Senseki Line Underground Platform
9	■Senseki Line	forAoba-dōri
10		forMatsushima Kaigan・Ishinomaki
Shinkansen Elevated Platform
11・12	Tōhoku Shinkansen・Hokkaido Shinkansen	forIchinoseki・Morioka・Shin Aomori・Shin Hakodate Hokuto
	Akita Shinkansen	forKakunodate・Omagari Station・Akita
	Tōhoku Shinkansen	for Fukushima・Koriyama・Utsunomiya・Omiya・Tokyo	First train from this station departs from here
13・14

Sendai Subway

TheSendai Subwaylies to the west, and can be accessed from the main station via underground passageways at both ends of the station. The platform for the subway at Sendai Station is actually closer toAoba-dōri Stationthan the other JR lines in Sendai Station. In fact, there is a transfer-only gate between the subway and Senseki Line platform at Aoba-dōri Station.

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  Tozai line ticket hall
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  Tozai line platform
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  Namboku line platform

Platforms

The Namboku Line platforms are located on the third basement ( "B3F" ) level, and the Tozai Line platforms are located on the fourth basement ( "B4F" ) level.
B3F

1	■Namboku Line (Sendai)	■forTomizawa
2	■Namboku Line	■forIzumi-Chūō

B4F

3	■Tozai Line	■forArai
4	■Tozai Line	■forYagiyama Zoological Park

History

The station first opened on 15 December 1887.

On October 9, 2023, an accidental chemical spill on a Tohoku Shinkansen train was reported to have stopped at the station.The incident was investigated by firefighters from the Sendai City Fire Department.

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  Underground platform in the 1920s

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the JR East station was used by an average of 91,278 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the busiest JR East station outside theGreater Tokyo Area.It is also the busiest JR East station in Miyagi Prefecture and the 50th-busiest on the JR East network as a whole.In fiscal 2018, the Sendai Subway portion of the station was used by an average of 55,614 passengers daily.

The JR East passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
1913	1,628
1960	43,089
1971	58,799
1984	64,634
2000	78,195
2005	76,723
2010	74,672
2015	84,964

Surrounding area

West (main) exit

West exit view

The area outside the west exit of Sendai Station is the traditional center of activity around the station. This is because the area is closer to the central business district of Sendai, which initially developed around Sendai Castle.

The area is home to some of the largestdepartment storesin Sendai. The S-Pal department store and the Station are directly connected to each other. A large elevatedwalkwayoutside the exit provides access to other department stores, such as the Loft Department Store, Sakurano Department Store, the Jujiya Co. Sendai Store, and EBeanS. EbeanS is home to Junkudo Sendai, the largest bookstore in the Tohoku Region. The AER Building, a large office building built through recentredevelopment,is also located in the area and is home to various offices and stores, such as Maruzen, another large bookstore.

The area around the Asaichi-dori street, next to EBeanS, is known as the Sendai Asaichi (Sendai morningMarket), although stores are open all day long. The Asaichi is home to a wide variety of small stores that mainly sell Japanese foods.

The Sendai Metropolitan Hotel can be directly accessed via the elevated walkway and is extremely convenient for visitors unfamiliar with the area. The entrance to Sendai's largest shopping malls, such as the Clis Road Shopping District and the Ichibancho Shopping District, are located close to the exit of the elevated walkway, and a bus exchange area and taxi pool can be found under the walkway.

East exit

The area outside the east exit of Sendai Station is the "new" side of the station. It traditionally had a smaller concentration of businesses compared to the west side. That the area was not damaged byWorld War IIbombing also delayed development in the area.

The municipal government decided to conduct redevelopment in the area in 1960. The redevelopment project is still in progress, but the area has already been largely renovated with a new bus exchange area and taxi pool. TheYodobashi CameraSendai Store, one of the largest electronics retailers in Sendai, is located right outside the east exit and BiVi Sendai, a department store, is located close by. The east side of the station is close to many entertainment venues, such as Beeb Sendai andSendai Sunplaza.Miyagi Baseball Stadiumis within walking distance.

External links

Media related toSendai Station (Miyagi)at Wikimedia Commons

• Sendai Station map

Official website(in Japanese)

Official website(Sendai Subway)(in Japanese)