History
Ichinowatari Station opened on 1972-02-27 as an unstaffed station on the Japanese National Railways Miyako Line. The line was transferred to the third-sector Sanriku Railway on 1984-04-01 and became part of the Kita-Rias Line (now the Rias Line). The Tōhoku Earthquake of 2011-03-11 closed the line entirely; service between Miyako and Tarō, which includes this station, resumed on 2011-03-20. Trapped between tunnels on either side, the unstaffed station has a single island platform serving two tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Set among the mountains where Japanese bush warblers and cuckoos can often be heard, the station has been given the nickname 'Uguisu no Komichi' — 'Path of the Warbler'.