Matsushima

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

The present Matsushima Station opened on 9 July 1956 as Shin-Matsushima Station, upgraded from a signal stop established on 15 November 1944 when the Tōhoku Main Line was rerouted from a steep inland alignment to a gentler coastal one for wartime traffic. When the original mountain-line Matsushima Station closed in 1962 and the Shin-Matsushima name was retired, this coastal station inherited the bare "Matsushima" name on 1 July 1962. JR East took over at privatisation in 1987, and a new station building opened in March 2010. In May 2015 a short connecting line linking Matsushima with Takagimachi opened, enabling Senseki-Tōhoku Line trains to run via the Tōhoku Main Line — though those services do not actually stop here.

Matsushima is the junction station for the Senseki-Tōhoku Line connecting track in name only: the actual junction lies between Shiogama and Matsushima, short of the platforms, and no boarding facilities for those trains are provided at the station, so Senseki-Tōhoku Line services handle no passengers here. Passengers connecting between the two lines use Takagimachi Station, about 1 km away, instead.