Marumori

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Marumori Station in Marumori town, Miyagi opened on 1 April 1968 as the terminus of the Japanese National Railways Marumori Line, a partially built route originally planned to run from Tsukinoki to Fukushima. Because the line stopped at Marumori for nearly two decades, trains running toward Tsukinoki were classed as up-trains, reversing the usual JNR convention. Low ridership made the Marumori Line a Specific Local Line designated for closure under the JNR rehabilitation programme; local governments converted it to the third-sector Abukuma Express on 1 July 1986, and the missing Marumori–Fukushima section finally opened on 1 July 1988, leaving Marumori as a through station.

Marumori opened in 1968 as the terminus of the Japanese National Railways Marumori Line, and during the JNR era that made the line's direction labels run backwards: although the standard rule counted trains heading toward Tokyo as up-trains and trains heading toward Aomori as down-trains, on the Marumori Line it was the trains heading toward Tsukinoki that were classed as up-trains.