Kuji (Iwate)

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Kuji Station opened on 27 March 1930 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Hachinohe Line, in the city of Kuji on the Iwate coast. It became the terminus of the JNR Kuji Line on 20 July 1975; that line was spun off to the third-sector Sanriku Railway as the Kita-Rias Line on 1 April 1984. JR East took over the JNR portion at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami suspended both lines; Sanriku Railway resumed service to Rikuchū-Noda within five days and to Tanohata by 1 April 2012, and Hachinohe Line trains restarted on 17 March 2012. On 23 March 2019 the Kita-Rias Line was merged into the new Sanriku Railway Rias Line, of which Kuji became the northern terminus.

The Sanriku Railway side of the station served as 'Kita-Sanriku Station' on NHK's morning serial drama Amachan, broadcast from April to September 2013, and the Sanriku Railway station's nickname kohaku-iro (amber colour) comes from Kuji's status as an amber-producing area.