Station

Iwanoshita

岩ノ下

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Iwanoshita
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Iwanoshita Station opened on 1 December 1966 as a petition station — built at the request of the local community — on the Japanese National Railways Ōfunato Line in what is now the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate. It has been an unattended passenger-only stop from the day it opened. The station joined JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. Iwanoshita lies 17.5 rail kilometres from the line origin at Ichinoseki. There is no station building — just a small waiting shelter on a single ground-level side platform serving one bi-directional track — and the surrounding district is known for its Higashiyama red-pine grove.

Notes

The red-pine grove that surrounds Iwanoshita Station is registered as a tangible cultural property of Ichinoseki City under the name "Higashiyama akamatsu."

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