Nagamachi

Weekday departures: 314/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 227/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:39 / 24:07 (00:07 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (29)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 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 complete: Sendai Namboku Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sendai Namboku Line: Nagamachi-Itchome ⇄ Nagamachi-Minami

Nagamachi Station began in 1894 as a military halt, hastily built on the Nippon Railway at the request of the Imperial Army's 2nd Division, then headquartered at Sendai Castle, after the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War. Civilian passenger service began in February 1896, and the station again served wartime transport in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. In 1914 the Akiu Stone Tramway opened its own Nagamachi terminus nearby, and in 1936 the Sendai City Tram extended its Nagamachi Line along the old Ōshū-kaidō. After the war the freight yard was repeatedly enlarged, handling 2,963 wagons in one day in 1959. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and on 15 July 1987 the Sendai Subway Namboku Line opened its own Nagamachi Station, making it an interchange. Elevation of the JR tracks as part of the Asuto Nagamachi redevelopment was completed on 18 September 2006.

Expansion of the marshalling yard from 1922 split the Nagamachi and Kōriyama districts; before improvements were made, an estimated 6,000 people a day crossed the live tracks on foot to reach the other side.