History
Samuraihama Station opened on 27 March 1930 as a Ministry of Railways station on the new section between Rikuchū-Yagi and Kuji, serving the coastal area that is now part of Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. Freight handling ended in October 1962 and parcel traffic in February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a Hachinohe Line station, 38.1 km from the line's terminus at Hachinohe. The passing loop was removed in October 2004 and the station became fully unattended. The line was suspended after the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and reopened in March 2012, and a new shelter replaced the old wooden building in March 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform embankment was washed out in October 2019 by Typhoon Hagibis, only seven years after the station had reopened following the 2011 tsunami suspension.