Kesennuma Station is a train station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 in central Kesennuma, Miyagi

Miyagi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai.- History :Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It forms the junction of the JR East

East Japan Railway Company

is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....

 Ōfunato

Ofunato Line

The is a local rail line in Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it runs as a spur line from Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki, Iwate, in central Japan to Sakari Station in Ōfunato, Iwate, on the coast...

 and Kesennuma

Kesennuma Line

The is a local rail line in Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it runs from Maeyachi Station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi to Kesennuma Station in Kesennuma, Miyagi...

 lines. It is the northern terminus for the Kesennuma Line

Kesennuma Line

The is a local rail line in Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it runs from Maeyachi Station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi to Kesennuma Station in Kesennuma, Miyagi...

.

Kesennuma Station was undamaged in the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Line

• JR East
  East Japan Railway Company
  is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....
  
   Ōfunato Line
  Ofunato Line
  The is a local rail line in Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it runs as a spur line from Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki, Iwate, in central Japan to Sakari Station in Ōfunato, Iwate, on the coast...
  
  
• JR East
  East Japan Railway Company
  is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....
  
   Kesennuma Line
  Kesennuma Line
  The is a local rail line in Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it runs from Maeyachi Station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi to Kesennuma Station in Kesennuma, Miyagi...
  
  

History

• July 31, 1929: Station begins operation on the Ōfunato Line.
• April 11, 1956: Freight service to the Kesennuma port begins.
• February 11, 1957: Passenger service on the Kesennuma Line begins.

External links

Kesennuma Station (JR East) video of a train trip from Kesennuma Station

Kesennuma Station

Kesennuma Station is a train station in central Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. It forms the junction of the JR East Ōfunato and Kesennuma lines...

 to Minami-Kesennuma Station

Minami-Kesennuma Station

Minami-Kesennuma Station is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan.It is the rapid express "Minami-Sanriku" stop station for Sendai.Minami-Kesennuma Station was almost completely destroyed in the 2011 Japanese tsunami....

 in 2009, passing through Fudōnosawa Station

Fudonosawa Station

Fudōnosawa Station is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Kesennuma, Miyagi.The station was undamaged in the 2011 Japanese tsunami....

 at around 03:25 minutes without stopping. Satellite photos (eg, in Google Maps) showed that sections of track near Minami-Kesennuma Station were severely affected by the 2011 tsunami

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

. Kesennuma Station and Fudōnosawa Station were undamaged.