History
Senbokuchō Station is on the JR East Tōhoku Main Line in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, 533.5 rail kilometres from Tokyo. It opened on 5 January 1915 and was relocated 100 metres towards Morioka on 1 September 1968 in connection with an adjustment to the operating distance. Freight service ended on 1 February 1984, parcel service on 14 March 1985, and the station was absorbed into JR East on 1 April 1987. From 10 March 2005 a contracted operator took over staffing and the Senbokuchō stationmaster post was abolished. Suica became usable on 27 May 2023, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 15 March 2024, and the station became unstaffed all day from 16 March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
An east-west free pedestrian passage, built by the city of Morioka in 1990 next to the station footbridge, was planned with a future overhead station building in mind; only after community lobbying did elevators arrive in 2015, with platform elevators and a ramp finally opening on 7 March 2026.