Station

Kuriyagawa

厨川

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Kuriyagawa
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 85/day · Sat & holiday departures: 76/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:07 / 23:12

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (9)


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

Timetable data as of 7 August 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kuriyagawa Station opened on 1 November 1918 as a general station of the Railways Bureau's Tōhoku Main Line. The Japan Monopoly Corporation's Morioka tobacco-factory siding closed on 1 February 1984, when the station's remaining freight handling ended, and JR privatisation on 1 April 1987 split operations between JR East and JR Freight. On 1 December 2002 the Tōhoku Shinkansen's extension to Hachinohe transferred the route to the third-sector IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway, and JR Freight withdrew on 1 April 2006. A pedestrian underpass linking the two sides of the tracks — built by Morioka after requests from local neighbourhood associations and station users seeking safer routes for high-school students and residents — opened in provisional service on 7 January 2013.

Notes

From 1 December 2006 to March 2010, IGR's in-house travel agency Galaxy Railway Sightseeing operated a ticket window inside the station, having relocated from Takizawa Station.

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