Rikuzen-Ono Station opened on April 10, 1928, as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The Miyagi Electric Railway was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.
The station was closed from March 11, 2011 due to damage to the line associated with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and services were replaced by provisional bus services.[1] The station reopened on March 17, 2012, in the direction of Yamoto and Ishinomaki and a new station building was inaugurated on that date. Services in the direction of Sendai were resumed on May 30, 2015.[2]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 345 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
^Sendai Branch, East Japan Railway Company (September 1, 2011). 地震等による列車影響と運転見込みについて (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 2, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.