Maeyachi Station

Maeyachi 前谷地
File:Maeyachi-stn cropped.jpg Maeyachi Station, February 2007
Location	Maeyachi, Ishinomaki, Miyagi （宮城県石巻市前谷地） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kesennuma Line Ishinomaki Line
History
Opened	1912
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2012)	174 daily

Maeyachi Station (前谷地駅, Maeyachi-eki) is a railway station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Maeyachi Station is served by both the Kesennuma Line and the Ishinomaki Line. It is the southern terminus of the Kesennuma Line and is located 12.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Ishinomaki Line at Kogota Station.

Station layout

Maeyachi Station has one side platform and one island platform connected to the station building by an overhead passage.

Platforms

1	■ Ishinomaki Line	for Kogota and Sendai
2	■ Ishinomaki Line	for Ishinomaki, Onagawa
	■ Kesennuma Line	for Yanaizu
3	■ Ishinomaki Line	for Kogota for Ishinomaki
	■ Kesennuma Line	Yanaizu

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Kesennuma Line
Terminus		Local		Wabuchi
Ishinomaki Line
Wakuya		Local		Kakeyama

History

Maeyachi Station opened on October 28, 1912. The Yanaizu Line began operations from December 24, 1968 and was extended to Motoyoshi Station to become the Kesennuma Line in 1977, The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. A train was derailed near the station on July 26, 2003 due to a magnitude 6.2 earthquake.

Surrounding area

• former Kanan Town Hall
• Kanan Post Office
• Japan National Route 108

External links

• JR East Station information (Japanese)
• video of a train trip from Rikuzen-Toyosato Station to Maeyachi Station in 2009, passing Nonodake Station at around 03:35 minutes and Wabuchi Station at around 05:48 minutes, without stopping.