History
Rikuchu-Noda Station opened on 20 July 1975 as an unstaffed Japan National Railways stop on the Kuji Line, serving Noda village in Iwate. The station transferred to the third-sector Sanriku Railway on 1 April 1984 and became simple-consignment at the same time. The station building was rebuilt in 1992 to incorporate the Paapuru tourist hall, which was registered as the Roadside Station Noda in April 1994. Service was suspended after the 11 March 2011 tsunami and was restored to Rikuchu-Noda on 16 March 2011. On 23 March 2019 the station became an intermediate stop on the unified Rias Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station shared its building with the Michi-no-Eki Noda roadside-station complex from 1994 until that facility relocated on 20 June 2025.