Shizuhama Station
Shizuhama Station (清水浜駅, Shizuhama-eki) was a JR East railway station located in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The blue-roofed station platform remained standing after the 2011 tsunami, however the adjacent railway bridge and track (southwest of the station) collapsed. Services have now been replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit line.
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 Shizuhama Station in June 2007 | |||||||||||
| Location | Shizugawa-ave Oda 2-8, Minamisanriku, Motoyoshi, Miyagi （宮城県南三陸町志津川字小田2-8） Japan | ||||||||||
| Operated by | JR East | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Kesennuma Line | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1977 | ||||||||||
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Lines
Shizuhama Station was served by the Kesennuma Line, and was located 38.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Maeyachi Station.
Station layout
Shizuhama Station had a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station was unattended.
History
Shizuhama Station opened on 11 December 1977. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Operations were discontinued after the station was severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and rail services have now been replaced by a bus rapid transit line.
Surrounding area
- Japan National Route 45
- Shizu Elementary School
External links
Media related to Shizuhama Station at Wikimedia Commons
- JR East Station information (in Japanese)
- "JR気仙沼線 【前面展望 ５】 歌津⇒志津川" (video). YouTube.com. Retrieved 2011-04-26. video of a train trip from Utatsu Station to Shizugawa Station in 2009, passing Shizuhama Station at around 03:45 minutes without stopping. Satellite photos (e.g., in Google Maps) showed that much of the landscape visible in the video was severely affected by the 2011 tsunami and most of the railway bridges the train travels across were partly or completely destroyed. The destination Shizugawa Station was destroyed.
- "志津川② 南三陸町 東日本大震災 ｍｍ９４" (video). YouTube.com. Retrieved 2011-06-06. the destroyed railway bridge a few hundred meters northeast of Shizugawa Station, shot from a car traveling along National Route 45 38.6917°N 141.4892°E