History
Hizume Station opened on 1 November 1890 as a Nippon Railway station on what is today the Tōhoku Main Line, and was nationalised when Nippon Railway was absorbed by the government rail system on 1 November 1906. The station lies 516.8 rail kilometres from Tokyo Station and serves the town of Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture. It passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and was reduced to a contracted operation in 2004. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed in March 2018, Suica service began on 27 May 2023, and the station became fully unstaffed in March 2024.
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
A roadside monument with verses by Kenji Miyazawa was erected at the station in April 2010, commemorating his reputed visits to a nurse he loved who lived nearby.