Utatsu Station

Utatsu Station (歌津駅, Utatsu-eki^?) is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Utatsu, Miyagi.

The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after the 2011 tsunami, however the adjacent railway bridge and track (southwest of the station) collapsed.

Line

• JR East Kesennuma Line

Surrounding area

• Highway 45
• Utatsu Town Hall
• Utatsu Peninsula Fishdragon Fossil Discovery Area

History

• December 11, 1977: Station opens.

Adjacent stations

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

External links

• (Japanese) Utatsu Station (JR East)
• "JR気仙沼線 【前面展望 ５】 歌津⇒志津川" (video). YouTube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFfUvY6Zdus. Retrieved 2011-04-26.  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 (eg, 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 completely obliterated.