Sendai Station is a geographic and temporal marker in a phone call during Prince’s train journey. The station is not presented as the site of an encounter; its importance is that the train has passed it when a separate danger waiting at a hospital comes into focus.

A Landmark Along the Journey

The narration places the call just after Prince has passed Sendai Station. The caller, a man waiting near a hospital, asks whether the train has gone beyond Sendai, using Prince’s progress as a cue for the timing of his own next action. The station therefore locates the conversation along the route without establishing that Prince stops there or that the caller is at the station.

Connection to the Hospital Threat

The caller is dressed as a nurse and is waiting for an opportunity to act against Kimura’s son, Wataru. Prince tells him to wait and gives a condition for proceeding: if Prince does not answer a call after ten rings, the man may go ahead. The exchange links a moving train to a planned attack elsewhere; Sendai Station marks the point in the journey at which that threat is discussed, not the place where it is carried out.

Narrative Function

The brief reference makes distance and timing part of the suspense. Prince’s position on the route helps explain why the caller checks whether he has passed Sendai, while the ten-ring instruction makes the danger depend on communication between the two men. The station thus acts as a waypoint connecting the train narrative with the peril facing Wataru at the hospital.