is a junction

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in Taihaku-ku, Sendai,

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, Japan, operated by

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(JR East) and the Sendai Subway.

Lines

Nagamachi Station is served by the Sendai Subway Nanboku Line, and on JR East's Joban Line and Tohoku Main Line. The

Sendai Airport Access Line The is an airport rail link service connecting Sendai Airport to Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Rail service began on March 18, 2007. Data The third-sector Sendai Airport Transit Co., Ltd. (SAT) started construction of the line in 2002. The const ...

uses the same tracks, but passes through the station without stopping. The subway and JR lines are not directly connected; however, the distance between the two stations is only around two hundred metres. It is 347.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Tohoku Main Line at and 12.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Sendai Subway Namboku Line at .

Station layout

JR Nagamachi Station is an elevated station with one

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

, and the station building located underneath. The station has a "

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" staffed ticket office. The Sendai Subway portion of the station has a single underground island platform.

JR East platforms

Sendai Subway platforms

History

Nagamachi Station opened on November 2, 1894, as a military station of

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. It was opened to the general public on February 21, 1896. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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of the

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(JNR) on April 1, 1987. The subway station opened on June 15, 1987.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the JR East station was used by an average of 9,513 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). In the same year, the Sendai Subway station was used by an average of 8,477 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

* * *Sendai-Taihaku Ward Office *Sendai-Nitta Post Office

References

External links

JR East Station information

Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Sendai Sendai Subway Namboku Line Tōhoku Main Line Jōban Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1894