History
Iwanebashi Station opened on 15 December 1914 as the terminus of an extension of the Iwate Light Railway from Haruyama, on 762 mm narrow-gauge track. It became an intermediate station when the railway reached Kashiwagidaira on 23 November 1915. The line was nationalised in 1936 and became the Kamaishi Line, with regauging to 1,067 mm completed on 20 September 1943. Freight handling ended in 1982, parcel service in 1984, and the station became unstaffed in March 1985. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station, in Tōno, Iwate, lies 21.7 rail kilometres from the Kamaishi Line's starting point at Hanamaki, with a single side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's Esperanto nickname, "Fervojponto" ("railway bridge"), refers to the nearby arch-spanned Miyamori River viaduct, dubbed Megane-bashi ("eyeglass bridge"), which was selected as a Civil Engineering Heritage of Japan in 2002.