History
Nitanai Station opened on 25 October 1913 on the 762 mm narrow-gauge Iwate Light Railway that ran from Hanamaki to the long-defunct Sennintōge Station. The line was nationalised in 1936 and became the Kamaishi Line, and the standard 1,067 mm regauging took effect on 20 September 1943. Located in Hanamaki, Iwate, the station passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 and was made unstaffed when the line was placed on CTC in October 1993. Suica reader gates were installed on 27 May 2023, and eki-net QR ticket service began on 1 October 2024. The station has a single island platform whose tracks carry no numbered bay designations.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nitanai carries an Esperanto nickname, "La Marbordo" ("the seashore"), inspired by Kenji Miyazawa's naming of a stretch of the nearby Kitakami River bank as "Iharatsuīsu Kaigan" ("England Coast").