Higashi-Sendai

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Higashi-Sendai Station traces back to the Nigatake Signal Box, opened on 18 October 1909, which had no platforms but allowed passenger boarding. It was upgraded to a full station as Higashi-Sendai on 25 July 1932, and the surrounding district was developed in Sendai's first land-readjustment project under the urban planning law. In 1936 the adjacent Sendai Government Granary was opened, served by a now-removed spur. The Miyagino Freight Line and Miyagino Station opened in 1960, making Higashi-Sendai the junction between passenger and freight tracks. The station was transferred to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The prewar wooden station building was demolished and a new building entered service on 28 February 2016.

Within Sendai City there are station names combining a compass direction with "Sendai," such as Kita-Sendai, Minami-Sendai, and Nishi-Sendai Highland (a closed station), but Higashi-Sendai is the only one of these actually used as a real place-name.