Shizuhama Station

File:Around Shizuhama Station after tsunami.jpg

Shizuhama Station after the 2011 earthquake

was a JR East railway station located in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after the 2011 tsunami, however the adjacent railway bridge and track (southwest of the station) collapsed. Services have now been replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit line.

Lines

Shizuhama Station was served by the Kesennuma Line, and was located 38.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Maeyachi Station.

Station layout

Shizuhama Station had a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station was unattended.

History

Shizuhama Station opened on 11 December 1977. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Operations were discontinued after the station was severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and rail services have now been replaced by a bus rapid transit line.

Surrounding area

• Japan National Route 45
• Shizu Elementary School

External links

• JR East Station information Template:In lang
• Template:Cbignore video of a train trip from Utatsu Station to Shizugawa Station in 2009, passing Shizuhama Station at around 03:45 minutes without stopping. Satellite photos (e.g., in Google Maps) showed that much of the landscape visible in the video was severely affected by the 2011 tsunami and most of the railway bridges the train travels across were partly or completely destroyed. The destination Shizugawa Station was destroyed.
• Template:Cbignore the destroyed railway bridge a few hundred meters northeast of Shizugawa Station, shot from a car traveling along National Route 45