Yanaizu Station (Miyagi)

Yanaizu Station 柳津駅
Yanaizu Station in September 2012
Location	Tsuyama-cho Yanaizu-aze Tanigi 196, Tome-shi, Miyagi-ken 986-0401 Japan
Line(s)	■ Kesennuma Line
Distance	17.6 km from Maeyachi
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	Staffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	October 24, 1968
Traffic

Passengers (FY2016)	58 daily

Location
Yanaizu Station Location within Japan

Yanaizu Station (柳津駅, Yanaizu-eki) is a JR East railway station located in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Since the 2011 tsunami, the station has become the de facto terminal station of the Kesennuma Line, with services beyond the station replaced by a provisional Bus Rapid Transit line.

Lines

Yanaizu Station is served by the Kesennuma Line, and is located 17.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Maeyachi Station.

Yanaizu Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

1	■ Kesennuma Line	for Maeyachi and Kogota
2	■ Kesennuma Line	service suspended

Yanaizu Station opened on October 24, 1968. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Since the 2011 tsunami, the station has become the de facto terminal station of the Kesennuma Line, with services beyond the station replaced by a provisional Bus Rapid Transit line.

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 58 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2016年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yanaizu Station (Miyagi).

Official website (in Japanese)
"JR気仙沼線【前面展望７】陸前横山⇒柳津" (video). YouTube.com. Retrieved 2011-04-26. video of a train trip from Rikuzen-Yokoyama Station to Yanaizu Station in 2009.
"JR気仙沼線【前面展望８】柳津⇒陸前豊里" (video). YouTube.com. Retrieved 2011-04-26. video of a train trip from Yanaizu Station to Rikuzen-Toyosato Station in 2009, passing Mitakedō Station at around 03:35 minutes without stopping.

Stations of the Kesennuma Line

(Stations in italics were formerly on the section destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and are currently served by a Bus Rapid Transit line.)

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