Matsushima-Kaigan

Weekday departures: 72/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 72/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:59 / 23:30

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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: Takagimachi ⇄ Rikuzen-Hamada

Matsushima-Kaigan Station opened on 18 April 1927 as Matsushima Kōen Station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. When the line was nationalised on 1 May 1944 the station was renamed to its present form. It passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The station was closed from 11 March to 28 May 2011 because of damage from the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In late 2019 it was switched to a temporary building so that a new elevated station with a second platform and accessible elevators could be built; the new building opened on 15 November 2021, and the renovation was fully completed on 28 February 2022.

The platform is built jutting out from a cliff, overlooking Matsushima Bay, and the station serves as the gateway for sightseeing at Matsushima, one of the Three Views of Japan.