Shizuhama Station is located on the JR 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...

 in Minamisanriku

Minamisanriku, Miyagi

, also spelled Minami Sanriku, is a resort town on a coastline of wooded islands and mountainous inlets. The town is in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi, Japan. It has an area of , and as of October 1, 2004 the population of the area was 19,170...

, 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...

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The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after 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...

, however large sections of the adjacent railway bridge and track (northeast of the station) collapsed.

External links

Shizuhama Station (JR East) video of a train trip from Utatsu Station

Utatsu Station

Utatsu Station 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 collapsed.-Surrounding area:...

 to Shizugawa Station

Shizugawa Station

Shizugawa Station is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Minamisanriku, Miyagi.It was destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami....

 in 2009, passing Shizuhama Station

Shizuhama Station

Shizuhama Station is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Minamisanriku, Miyagi.The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after the 2011 tsunami, however large sections of the adjacent railway bridge and track collapsed.- External links : video of a train trip from Utatsu Station to...

 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

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...

and most of the railway bridges the train travels across were partly or completely destroyed. The destination Shizugawa Station was destroyed. the destroyed railway bridge a few hundred meters northeast of Shizugawa Station, shot from a car traveling along National Route 45 38.6917°N 141.4892°W