History
Sentoku Station opened on 6 November 1934 as part of the Japanese Government Railways' Yamada Line in what is now Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1972 and parcel service on 15 November 1982, after which the station was destaffed and operations entrusted to the Sentoku Station Aikōkai cooperative — the Morioka Railway Bureau's first such simplified-agency station. Since the 2019 transfer of Miyako Station to Sanriku Railway management, Sentoku has been JR East's easternmost self-managed station. The 14 March 2020 timetable change made it a stop for the Yamada Line's Rias rapid service.
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
Sentoku was the Morioka Railway Bureau's first community-agency station under the simplified franchise scheme, and its old station building once housed a coffee shop called "Ekibasha" set up specifically to subsidise the modest ticket-window revenue.