History
Rikuchū-Matsukawa Station opened on 26 July 1925 on the Ōfunato Line in what is now the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate. It was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in March 2010. The unattended station has two opposed side platforms linked by a level crossing, and lies 21.3 rail kilometres from the line origin at Ichinoseki. The surrounding district is associated with the writer Kenji Miyazawa, and the local stone-museum "House of Sun and Wind" stands within walking distance of the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The surroundings of Rikuchū-Matsukawa belong to a district that supplied the limestone Miyazawa Kenji studied as an agricultural chemist; the "House of Sun and Wind" museum nearby is dedicated jointly to local stone and to Miyazawa.