History
Mizusawa Station opened on 1 November 1890 as a Nippon Railway general station and was nationalised in November 1906, joining the Tōhoku Main Line at the 1909 line-naming. A reinforced-concrete single-storey station building replaced earlier structures on 7 October 1976. Parcel handling ceased on 1 November 1986 ahead of JR privatisation on 1 April 1987, which split operations between JR East and JR Freight. A reworked freight yard with a new container platform entered service on 20 July 2006. The station was destaffed for direct JR East operation and contracted out on 1 December 2015 when the station-master post moved to Ichinoseki. Eki-Net Q-chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1962 the down platform has been decked out with about 700 Nambu-tekki cast-iron wind chimes each summer; the seasonal soundscape was selected for Japan's 100 Soundscapes list.