Horei

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Horei Station opened on 1 July 1973 as an unattended halt of the Japanese National Railways Sakari Line, in the Horei district of Okirai in what is now Ōfunato, Iwate. With the privatisation of the Sakari Line on 1 April 1984, the station passed to the third-sector operator Sanriku Railway, becoming part of its Minami-Rias Line. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami damaged the line, and service through Horei was suspended; trains returned on 3 April 2013 with the reopening of the Sakari-to-Yoshihama section. On 23 March 2019 the Minami-Rias Line, part of the Yamada Line and the Kita-Rias Line were unified into the through-running Rias Line.

The station's nickname "Kin no Shizuku" ("Golden Droplet") refers to nearby Mt. Imadeyama, a former gold mine. The station has also doubled as the fictional "Sennoura Station" in the Fuji TV drama series Asagao the Coroner.