Nishi-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): 5:25 / 24:29 (00:29 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (21)

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: Hon-Shiogama ⇄ Geba

Nishi-Shiogama Station opened on 5 June 1925 as a stop on the privately built Miyagi Electric Railway, in what is today the city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and the station passed to East Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. It serves the Senseki Line 15.2 rail kilometres from the terminus at Aoba-dōri. The station became unstaffed full-time from December 2020, and in December 2023 the automatic ticket gates were removed in favour of simple Suica readers — gates that had been unusual for an unstaffed JR East station.

Until the elevated double-track section was extended to Higashi-Shiogama in 1981, Nishi-Shiogama was one of the turnaround points where Senseki Line trains reversed direction.