Higashi-Shiogama

Weekday departures: 131/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 110/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:21 / 23:22

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (13)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Senseki Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Senseki Line: Rikuzen-Hamada ⇄ Hon-Shiogama

Higashi-Shiogama Station opened on 18 April 1927 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1944, and at the same time the station's name was rewritten with the character form 東塩竈, the reading Higashi-Shiogama being unchanged; the simplified form 東塩釜 was restored on 25 May 1963. Freight handling ended in October 1965 and parcel handling in July 1970. The station was relocated to its present site on 1 November 1981 in conjunction with line doubling, and was absorbed into the JR East network at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. An elevator opened on 5 March 2011, and the station became a JR East Tohoku Sogo Service contract station on 1 April 2012.

The double-track section from the Sendai direction extends only as far as this station; the section between this station and Ishinomaki Station is single-track, and ATACS and ATS-SN switch automatically between this station and Rikuzen-Hamada Station.