History
Ryōri Station opened on 1 March 1970 as a station on the Japanese National Railways Sakari Line in what is now Ōfunato, Iwate. With the privatisation of the Sakari Line on 1 April 1984 it became part of the Sanriku Railway Minami-Rias Line. Service through the area was suspended after the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami damaged the line; trains returned on 3 April 2013 with the reopening of the Sakari-to-Yoshihama section. On 23 March 2019 the Minami-Rias, Yamada and Kita-Rias segments were merged into the through-running Rias Line, and Ryōri became an intermediate station. Unusually for the line's smaller stops, Ryōri is staffed and has two opposed side platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite serving a small coastal community, Ryōri is staffed — a rarity among intermediate stops on the Sanriku Railway Rias Line, where most stations are unattended halts.