Shin-Rifu

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Shin-Rifu Station opened on 1 April 1982 as a station of Japanese National Railways on the Rifu Branch of the Tōhoku Main Line, in what is now Rifu, Miyagi District, Miyagi Prefecture. It was established together with the opening of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and was sited to serve workers commuting to the adjacent Shinkansen General Rolling Stock Centre. It is operated today by JR East. Rifu, immediately northeast of Sendai, is part of the Sendai metropolitan area and the Sen'en wider planning region; the town houses the Miyagi Prefectural Sports Park including Miyagi Stadium (Q&A Stadium Miyagi), which hosted matches at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the football competition of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Aoyama district of Rifu is also the prefecture's centre of population (38°20'50"N 140°58'45"E).

During the Nara period the Mutsu Provincial Office and Chinjufu were established at Taga Castle at the southeastern foot of the Matsushima Hills, and the Nakoso Barrier — said by some to be one of the "three barriers of Ōshū" alongside Shirakawa and Nezugaseki — was sited in the Morigō district of modern Rifu Town as the southern gateway to the road over those hills.