History
Nukuri Station opened on 16 July 1930 as one of the original stops on the Ōigawa Railway's main line, which runs north along the Ōi River from Kanaya to Senzu. The location, in what was then the town of Kawane, was absorbed into the city of Shimada in 2008. The station is unstaffed but retains its rustic wooden building, which since 23 March 2013 has doubled as the cafe "Sayo-baachan no Kyūkeijo." Service was suspended on 24 September 2022 after Typhoon 15 caused landslides on the Iemiya - Senzu section; the Iemiya - Kawane-Onsen-Sasamado portion that includes Nukuri reopened on 1 October 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Following the closure of Bakkai Station on the Sōya Main Line in March 2025, Nukuri became the only Japanese station name whose written form contains the kanji 抜 ("to pass through / pull").