History
Miyamori Station opened on 23 November 1915 as a station on the 762 mm narrow-gauge Iwate Light Railway when the line was extended from Iwanebashi to Kashiwagidaira. It was nationalised in 1936 and became part of the Kamaishi Line, and the standard-gauge regauging took effect on 20 September 1943. Freight handling ended in 1970, parcel service in 1984, and the station became unstaffed and contracted out in stages from 1985 onward. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The 1943-vintage station building, used as a film location in 1952, was demolished in early 2015 and replaced by a smaller waiting-room-led building completed on 2 April 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's Esperanto nickname is "Galaksia Kajo" ("galactic platform"), reflecting the Kamaishi Line's long-standing Kenji Miyazawa branding.