History
Tanohata Station opened on 1 April 1984, the day the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Kuji Line was privatised and reborn as the Sanriku Railway Company. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated surrounding Tanohata village with waves reaching up to 20 metres and tore away parts of the right-of-way, suspending services on a portion of the Sanriku Railway; the station building itself survived. The Rikuchū-Noda - Tanohata section resumed operations on 1 April 2012, and services extended further south to Omoto on 6 April 2014. On 23 March 2019 the former Kita-Rias, Minami-Rias and Yamada Line segments were consolidated into the through-running Rias Line, making Tanohata an intermediate station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's nickname "Campanella" is taken from the character in Kenji Miyazawa's novella "Night on the Galactic Railroad", and the station served as the fictional Hatano Station in NHK's 2013 morning drama Amachan.