History
Surisawa Station opened on 26 July 1925 as a general station on the Ōfunato Line in what is now Ichinoseki, Iwate, and served as the line's terminus until services were extended further east on 15 July 1927. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1972 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. The station joined JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed on 1 December 1999, sharing a three-storey reinforced-concrete structure with the Daito branch of Ichinoseki City Hall and the 600-seat Shitsupō Hall. The station became unstaffed on 12 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Ōfunato Line's sharp detour through Surisawa is the textbook example of "wagaden-intetsu" (literally "drawing the railway to my own field"); a bronze bust of Sato Hidezo and Sato Ryōhei — the father-and-son politicians who forced the routing — stands in front of the station.