is a

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in the city of

Ishinomaki is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 138,538, and a population density of 250 persons per km2 in 61,919 households. The total area of the city is . Geography Ishinomaki is in northeastern Miya ...

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

(JR East).

Lines

Rikuzen-Inai Station is served by the

Ishinomaki Line The is a railway line in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Kogota Station in Misato with Onagawa Station in Onagawa, acting as a spur line from the Tōhoku Main Line to the central coast o ...

, and is located 30.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at

Kogota Station is a junction railway station in the town of Misato, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Kogota Station is served by three lines: the Tōhoku Main Line, the Ishinomaki Line, and the Rikuu East Line. It is locat ...

. The station is also served by local trains of the

Senseki-Tōhoku Line The is a railway line in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, opened by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on 30 May 2015. It connects Sendai Station in Sendai with Ishinomaki Station in Ishinomaki, using existing Tōhoku Main Line tracks between ...

, which uses the same track.

Station layout

The station has one

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, serving traffic a single bi-directional line. The station is unattended.

History

Rikuzen-Inai Station opened on October 7, 1939. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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JNR The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...

on April 1, 1987. Operations of the line and the station were suspended by the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...

of March 11, 2011. Services were resumed on March 17, 2013 on the Ishinomaki Line, and on August 6, 2016 on the

Surrounding area

*Former Inai Town Hall *Inai Post Office

External links

* {{Ishinomaki Line Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture Ishinomaki Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1939 Ishinomaki Stations of East Japan Railway Company

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Station layout

History

Surrounding area

See also

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