History
Tōno Station opened on 18 April 1914 on the Iwate Light Railway, a 762-mm narrow-gauge line that linked Hanamaki to the now-defunct Senninto Station; in this early period the station operated only for freight until passenger service began the following month. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1936 and absorbed into the Kamaishi Line; regauging from 762 mm to the JNR-standard 1,067 mm was completed in 1949 between Tōno and the west, and the rest of the line was through-regauged on 10 October 1950. The current hard-concrete-block station building, in a European style, dates from 1950 and was selected as one of the Top 100 Stations of Tōhoku in 2002. Operation passed to JR East at privatisation in 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1995 to 2015 the station's upper floor hosted 'Folkloro Tōno', a JR East Hotels inn carved out of the former permanent-way office above the booking hall.