History
Sanriku Station opened on 1 July 1973 as a station on the Japan National Railway in the city of Ōfunato, Iwate Prefecture. It passed to the third-sector Sanriku Railway on 1 April 1984. The 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami swept away part of the tracks on the former Minami-Rias Line, suspending services; the line resumed operations between Sakari and Yoshihama on 3 April 2013 and between Yoshihama and Kamaishi on 5 April 2014. On 23 March 2019 the Minami-Rias, former JR Yamada and Kita-Rias lines were combined into the unified Rias Line, leaving Sanriku as an intermediate station. It has a single elevated island platform serving two tracks and has been unstaffed since 21 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.