Shizuhama Station

Shizuhama 清水浜
Shizuhama Station in June 2007
Location	Shizugawa-ave Oda 2-8, Minamisanriku, Motoyoshi, Miyagi （宮城県南三陸町志津川字小田2-8） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kesennuma Line
History
Opened	1977
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station towards Maeyachi Kesennuma / Ōfunato BRT Utatsu towards Sakari
Former services
Preceding station JR East Following station Shizugawa towards Kogota Kesennuma Line Utatsu towards Kesennuma

Shizuhama Station after the 2011 earthquake

Shizuhama Station (清水浜駅, Shizuhama-eki) was a JR East railway station located in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after the 2011 tsunami, however the adjacent railway bridge and track (southwest of the station) collapsed. Services have now been replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit line.

Lines[]

Shizuhama Station was served by the Kesennuma Line, and was located 38.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Maeyachi Station.

Station layout[]

Shizuhama Station had a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station was unattended.

History[]

Shizuhama Station opened on 11 December 1977. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Operations were discontinued after the station was severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and rail services have now been replaced by a bus rapid transit line.

Surrounding area[]

• Japan National Route 45
• Shizu Elementary School

External links[]

Media related to Shizuhama Station at Wikimedia Commons

• JR East Station information (in Japanese)
• "JR気仙沼線 【前面展望 ５】 歌津⇒志津川" (video). YouTube.com. 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 (e.g., 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 destroyed.
• "志津川②　南三陸町　東日本大震災　ｍｍ９４" (video). YouTube.com. Retrieved 2011-06-06. the destroyed railway bridge a few hundred meters northeast of Shizugawa Station, shot from a car traveling along National Route 45 38°41′30″N 141°29′21″E / 38.6917°N 141.4892°E / 38.6917; 141.4892

Coordinates: 38°41′25″N 141°29′13″E / 38.690365°N 141.486833°E / 38.690365; 141.486833