| Yamoto Station | |
| Style: | JR East |
| Native Name: | 矢本駅 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Address: | Yamoto-Kawabe 271, Higashimatsushima-shi, Miyagi-ken 981-0503 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 38.421°N 141.2099°W |
| Operator: | JR East |
| Distance: | 40.2 km from |
| Platforms: | 1 island platform |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
| Opened: | November 22, 1928 |
| Passengers: | 1,216 |
| Pass Year: | FY2018 |
| Map Type: | Japan Miyagi Prefecture#Japan |
is a railway station in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Yamoto Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 40.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station. It is also served by trains of the Senseki-Tōhoku Line.
The station has one island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Yamoto Station opened on November 22, 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] Services reopened on July 16, 2011 to and on March 17, 2012 to ; services past Rikuzen-Ono the direction of Sendai were resumed on May 30, 2015.[2]
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 1,216 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]