Kotsunagi

Weekday departures: 24/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:32 / 22:57

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 7 August 2026.

• Iwate Galaxy Railway Line: Kozuya ⇄ Okunakayama-Kogen

Kotsunagi Station traces its origin to a 31 December 1904 steam-locomotive watering stop opened by Nippon Railway. The site was nationalised in 1906 as a government watering and coaling halt and elevated to a full station on 21 September 1909. Freight handling ended in October 1962, and the station became simple-consignment in February 1982. The station was absorbed into JR East on 1 April 1987 and transferred to the third-sector Iwate Ginga Railway on 1 December 2002, when the Tohoku Shinkansen reached Hachinohe. Consignment ticketing was discontinued in 2017, leaving the station completely unstaffed.

The "life note" left at the station inspired Makoto Itakura's 2005 film Machiaishitsu, and the station features in the film.