History
Kirikiri Station opened on 5 April 1938 as a Ministry of Railways station on the Yamada Line in what is now Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. Service along the Miyako–Kamaishi segment was suspended after the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the damaged station building was demolished in February 2012. When the rebuilt segment was transferred to the Sanriku Railway on 23 March 2019, Kirikiri reopened as an intermediate station on the unified Rias Line, 52.3 rail kilometres from the southern terminus at Sakari, with a single side platform serving bi-directional traffic.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.