History
Sokei Station opened on 17 November 1935 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Yamada Line, serving the village of Sokei in what is now Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. It became unstaffed in February 1984 and transferred to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Yamada Line service between Miyako and Kamaishi was suspended after the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Once the closed segment had been rebuilt, the line was transferred to the third-sector Sanriku Railway on 23 March 2019, joining the former Kita-Rias and Minami-Rias Lines into the unified Rias Line. The station has been an intermediate stop on this line ever since.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station once hosted a private siding to the nearby Rasa Industries Miyako plant, where the locomotive C10 8 — now operating on the Ōigawa Railway — was at work.