History
Settai Station sits on the Sanriku Railway Rias Line in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, 113.5 kilometres from the line's terminus at Sakari. It opened on 1 April 1984 as a station on what was then the Kita-Rias Line, formed when the Japanese National Railways Kuji Line was privatised the same day and handed to the Sanriku Railway Company. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami damaged tracks and the station building at Shimanokoshi, suspending services on parts of the network; the section through Settai resumed operation on 29 March 2011. On 23 March 2019 the Minami-Rias Line, the JR Yamada Line coastal segment, and the Kita-Rias Line were unified as the Rias Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's nickname "Tabi-no-Hachirō" refers to a local legend about Hachirō, the youngest of three brothers who once lived in the Settai area.