Hon-Shiogama

Weekday departures: 189/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 145/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:23 / 24:31 (00:31 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (22)

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: Higashi-Shiogama ⇄ Nishi-Shiogama

Hon-Shiogama Station opened on 14 April 1926 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway at a site now occupied by the Ichibankan building. Within months it was briefly renamed Kari-Hon-Shiogama before reverting to Hon-Shiogama on 26 August 1926. After the Miyagi Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 May 1944 the station's name was rewritten with the character form 本塩竈, the reading Hon-Shiogama being unchanged, and the simplified form 本塩釜 was restored on 25 May 1963. On 1 November 1981 the line was double-tracked and elevated and the station was relocated to its present site. It was absorbed into JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. On 11 March 2011 the Tōhoku tsunami struck the first floor of the station; a partial restoration on 19 April 2011 reopened service as far as Higashi-Shiogama, with markers showing an inundation height of around 170 cm.

In 2002 it was selected as one of the "100 Notable Stations of Tōhoku," described as "the central station of one of the prefecture's leading port towns, bustling with ships coming and going."