Taishidō Station

Taishidō Station 太子堂駅
Taishidō Station, June 2010
Location	1-1 Taishidō, Taihaku, Sendai, Miyagi （岩手県宮太白区太子堂1-1） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Main Line, Joban Line
History
Opened	2007
Traffic

Passengers (FY2013)	3104 (JR) daily

Taishidō Station (太子堂駅, Taishidō-eki) is a railway station on the Tōhoku Main Line in Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Taishidō Station is served by the JR East's Jōban Line and Tōhoku Main Line. The Sendai Airport Access Line also shares the same track but passes through the station without stopping. The station is 347.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Tōhoku Main Line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Taishidō Station has one elevated island platform which can serve a nine-car train on each side of the platform.^[1] The station has a Green Window ticket counter.

Platforms

1	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Sendai, Rifu, Matsushima, and Kogota
2	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Shiroishi, and Fukushima
2	■ Joban Line	for Iwanuma, and Hamayoshida

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Tōhoku Main Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Minami-Sendai	Local	Nagamachi
Joban Line
Minami-Sendai	Local	Nagamachi

History

The redevelopment of the area surrounding the station, a site of former railway yard, is being carried out by the Urban Renaissance Agency under the project name "Asuto Nagamachi" (あすと長町).^[2] As one of infrastructures of the new town, the new station opened on March 18, 2007.

Surrounding area

Japan National Route 4
Natori River

References

↑ City of Sendai. 仙台市　あすと長町　鉄道高架 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-02-21.
↑ City of Sendai. 仙台市　あすと長町　土地区画整理事業の概要 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-02-21.

External links

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JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Tōhoku Main Line

Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)	Ueno Oku Akabane Urawa Saitama-Shintoshin Ōmiya Toro Higashi-Ōmiya Hasuda Shiraoka Shin-Shiraoka Kuki Higashi-Washinomiya Kurihashi Koga Nogi Mamada Oyama Koganei Jichiidai Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Utsunomiya Okamoto Hōshakuji Ujiie Kamasusaka Kataoka Yaita Nozaki Nishi-Nasuno Nasushiobara Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka	Kuroiso Takaku Kurodahara Toyohara Shirasaka Shin-Shirakawa Shirakawa Kutano Izumizaki Yabuki Kagamiishi Sukagawa Asaka-Nagamori Kōriyama Hiwada Gohyakugawa Motomiya Sugita Nihonmatsu Adachi Matsukawa Kanayagawa Minami-Fukushima Fukushima Higashi-Fukushima Date Koori Fujita Kaida Kosugō Shiroishi Higashi-Shiroishi Kita-Shirakawa Ōgawara Funaoka Tsukinoki Iwanuma Tatekoshi Natori Minami-Sendai Taishidō Nagamachi Sendai Higashi-Sendai Iwakiri (Shin-Rifu Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō Kokufu-Tagajō Shiogama Matsushima Atago Shinainuma Kashimadai Matsuyama-Machi Kogota Tajiri Semine Umegasawa Nitta Ishikoshi Yushima Hanaizumi Shimizuhara Arikabe Ichinoseki Yamanome Hiraizumi Maesawa Rikuchū-Orii Mizusawa Kanegasaki Rokuhara Kitakami Murasakino Hanamaki Hanamaki Airport Ishidoriya Hizume Shiwachūō Furudate Yahaba Iwate-Iioka Senbokuchō Morioka

Stations of the Jōban Line

Freight Line: Tabata; Mikawashima; Minami-Senju

Stations served only by the Chiyoda Line through service local trains between Kita-Senju and Abiko are omitted.

Coordinates: 38°13′4.71″N 140°53′0.65″E / 38.2179750°N 140.8835139°E / 38.2179750; 140.8835139

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