History
Orikasa Station opened on 10 November 1936 as a Ministry of Railways station on the Yamada Line in what is now Yamada, Iwate Prefecture. The station was unstaffed from 10 March 1983. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The original facility was washed away by the tsunami of the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. When the rebuilt Miyako–Kamaishi segment was transferred to the Sanriku Railway on 23 March 2019, Orikasa reopened roughly one kilometre north of the original site, well clear of the tsunami-inundation zone, as an intermediate station on the unified Rias Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The fictional Orikasa Station that appears in the 2022 animated film Suzume by Makoto Shinkai is modelled on this station, drawing fans on location pilgrimages.