History
Miyako Station opened on 6 November 1934 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Yamada Line, in what is now Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. A freight branch to the port operated from 1943 until 1984. The connecting Miyako Line opened in 1972, was privatised in 1984 as Sanriku Railway's Kita-Rias Line, and made Miyako an interchange between JNR and the new third-sector. The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the eastern Yamada Line; the section between Miyako and Kamaishi was rebuilt and transferred to Sanriku Railway as part of the new Rias Line on 23 March 2019, when station management also moved from JR East to Sanriku Railway. The current building, opened December 2012, evokes Jōdogahama Beach.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Miyako is the easternmost station in the whole of JR East's network — though strictly speaking JR's own easternmost staffed station is neighbouring Sentoku, because Miyako itself has been managed by Sanriku Railway since the 2019 line transfer.