History
Iwate-Funakoshi Station opened on 10 November 1936 as a Ministry of Railways station on the Yamada Line in what is now Yamada, Iwate Prefecture. Freight handling ceased in 1965 and parcel service in 1985. The station became unstaffed in March 1987 just before passing to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April that year, with dispatched staffing ending entirely in December 2001. Service was suspended after the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. When the restored Miyako–Kamaishi segment was transferred to the Sanriku Railway on 23 March 2019, it reopened as an intermediate stop on the unified Rias Line, located 60.5 rail kilometres from the southern terminus at Sakari.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A sign on the platform identifies Iwate-Funakoshi as the easternmost railway station on the island of Honshu, and the local nickname is "Honshū Saitōtan no Eki" ("Honshu's easternmost station").