Sakunami

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Sakunami Station opened on 30 August 1931 as the Senzan East Line's mountain-side terminus, in what is today Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. When the Senzan Line was completed through the long Senzan Tunnel in 1937, Sakunami became home to a locomotive depot serving the line's pioneering electrification — the section through the tunnel was built as direct-current electrified track, and from the 1950s the Kita-Sendai to Sakunami stretch became a national testbed for AC electrification. The depot closed in 1968 as the full line was unified under AC power. A new wooden station building was completed in March 2008, and on 23 March 2023 the station was left unstaffed all day when the local tourist association gave up its ticket-sales contract.

In January 2024 a Japan Post simple post office opened inside the station and took over ticket sales, the first such arrangement in the Tōhoku region and the first nationally to be run by a private company.