Timetable information
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Location
History
Surisawa Station opened on 26 July 1925 as a general station on the Ōfunato Line in what is now Ichinoseki, Iwate, and served as the line's terminus until services were extended beyond it on 15 July 1927. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1972 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. The station joined JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed on 1 December 1999, sharing a three-storey reinforced-concrete structure with the Surisawa branch office of Ichinoseki City Hall and the 600-seat Shitsupō Hall. The station became unstaffed on 12 March 2022.
Notes
The Ōfunato Line's sharp detour through Surisawa, brought about by pressure from the Seiyūkai, is the textbook example of gaden-intetsu (literally "drawing the railway to one's own field"); busts of Satō Hidezō and Satō Ryōhei, the father and son said to have engineered the routing, stand in front of the station.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Mister0124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18