Sendai (Miyagi)

Weekday departures: 959/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 765/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:11 / 24:02 (00:02 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (88)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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, Tohoku Shinkansen, Sendai Tozai Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Senzan Line: no timetable data
• JR Senseki Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sendai Tozai Line: Aoba-dori Ichibancho ⇄ Miyagino-dori
• Sendai Namboku Line: Hirose-dori ⇄ Itsutsubashi
• JR Senseki Line: Aoba-dori ⇄ Tsutsujigaoka (Miyagi)
• Tohoku Shinkansen: Furukawa ⇄ Shiroishi-Zao
• Tohoku Main Line: Ichinoseki ⇄ Shiogama ⇄ Fukushima (Fukushima)

Sendai Station opened on 15 December 1887 as a stop on the Nippon Railway company's line from Tokyo to Aomori, with its present site chosen after lobbying from city interests in 1886. The original wooden building was replaced in 1894 (2nd generation) and again in 1949 (4th generation); a temporary 5th-generation building followed in 1972, and the current sixth-generation building, integrated with a department store complex, dates from 1977. Tohoku Shinkansen services began on 23 June 1982. Senseki Line platforms moved underground on 11 March 2000, and Sendai Subway Tōzai Line platforms opened on 6 December 2015. Today the station handles every Tohoku, Akita and Hokkaido Shinkansen service.

Air services between Sendai Airport and Haneda were dropped in 1985 once the Shinkansen reached Ueno; since then the new line has had a monopoly on fast travel between Sendai and the capital.