History
Haruyama Station opened on 16 April 1914 on the 762 mm narrow-gauge Iwate Light Railway, initially as the terminus of an extension from Tsuchizawa. The line reached Iwanebashi on 15 December 1914 and Haruyama became an intermediate station. The Iwate Light Railway was nationalised in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi Line, and the standard 1,067 mm regauging was completed on 20 September 1943. Freight handling ceased in 1962, parcel service ended in 1984, and the station became unstaffed on 1 November 1986. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station, in Hanamaki, Iwate, has a single side platform; it formerly had two opposed platforms allowing trains to cross.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Haruyama carries an Esperanto nickname, "Ĉeriz-arboj" ("cherry trees in a row"), one of many Kamaishi Line stations bearing Esperanto names in honour of Kenji Miyazawa's interest in the language.