History
Kuriyagawa Station opened on 1 November 1918 as a general station of the Railways Bureau's Tōhoku Main Line. The Japan Monopoly Corporation's Morioka tobacco-factory siding closed on 1 February 1984 when private freight handling ended, and JR privatisation on 1 April 1987 split operations between JR East and JR Freight. On 1 December 2002 the Tohoku Shinkansen's extension to Hachinohe transferred the route to the third-sector IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway, and JR Freight withdrew on 1 April 2006. A pedestrian underpass linking the residential east side to the high schools on the west — built by Morioka after lobbying by parents and community groups — opened in provisional service on 7 January 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1 December 2006 to March 2010, IGR's in-house travel agency Galaxy Railway Sightseeing operated a ticket window inside the station, having relocated from Takizawa Station.