History
Hiraizumi Station opened on 28 May 1898 as a station of the private Nippon Railway in what is now the town of Hiraizumi, Iwate; the line was nationalised in 1906. The current single-storey reinforced-concrete building was completed in 1966. The station joined JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. In 2002 it was selected for the "100 Famous Stations of Tōhoku." After the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake damaged the structure, a renovation begun in May 2011 added an expanded waiting room and tourist office, themed around the local World Heritage candidacy. The station's photovoltaic and storage "eco-station" upgrade went live on 28 June 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
A piece of the station's footbridge struck by US strafing fire on 10 August 1945 is preserved on display inside the waiting room — Hiraizumi is also the northernmost station in the JR East Sendai suburban Suica area.