History
Kurikoma-Kōgen Station opened on 10 March 1990 on the Tōhoku Shinkansen at Kurihara, Miyagi, as a locally-funded petition station added after the line itself had been built. Campaigns for a Shinkansen stop in northern Miyagi began in 1979 around the former town of Tsukidate; the project later relocated to Shiwahime and broadened into a regional coalition that ultimately funded roughly 3.2 billion yen of construction costs. JR East rejected the public-suggested names in favour of its own choice, "Kurikoma-Kōgen." The elevated station offers two side platforms equipped with full-height platform screen doors because no through track separates passing trains from waiting passengers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Despite "kōgen" ("highland") in its name, the station sits at roughly 20 metres above sea level on the Miyagi rice plain.