History
Ishikoshi Station opened on 1890-04-16 as a station of the Nippon Railway, on what is now the Tōhoku Main Line in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture. From 1921-12-20 it also served the Kurihara Tramway, later the Kurihara Den'en Railway, until that line closed on 2007-04-01. Parcel handling ended on 1985-03-14 and freight handling on 1986-10-21. The station transferred to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. Staffing was contracted out from 2009-04-01, and a new station building entered service on 2011-07-31. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 2024-03-15 and the station became fully unattended the next day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ishikoshi is the northern boundary of JR East's Tōhoku Branch jurisdiction on the Tōhoku Main Line; the operational handover to the Morioka Branch is set at the first level crossing north of the station.