Station

Rikuchu-Matsukawa

陸中松川

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Rikuchu-Matsukawa
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Rikuchū-Matsukawa Station opened on 26 July 1925 on the Ōfunato Line in what is now the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate. It was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in March 2010. The unattended station has two opposed side platforms linked by a level crossing, and lies 21.3 rail kilometres from the line origin at Ichinoseki. The surrounding district is associated with the writer Kenji Miyazawa, and the local stone-museum "House of Sun and Wind" stands within walking distance of the station.

Notes

Near Rikuchū-Matsukawa Station stands the "House of Sun and Wind", a museum dedicated jointly to local stone and to the writer Kenji Miyazawa; the Tōhoku stone mine also lies in the surrounding area.

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