Oyamada Station

Oyamada Station 小山田駅
Oyamada Station, February 2007
Location	8 Kōda, Hanamaki, Iwate （岩手県花巻市幸田8） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kamaishi Line
History
Opened	1913
Previous names	Kōda (until 1915)

Oyamada Station (小山田駅, Oyamada-eki) is a railway station on the Kamaishi Line in Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Oyamada Station is served by the Kamaishi Line, and is located 8.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hanamaki Station.

Station layout

Oyamada Station has a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station is unattended.

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Kamaishi Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Shin-Hanamaki	Local	Tsuchizawa

History

Oyamada Station opened on 25 October 1913 as the Kōda Stop (幸田停留場, Kōda Reiryūjō) on the Iwate Light Railway. It was elevated to a full passenger station and given its present name on 23 November 1915. The Iwate Light Railway was nationalized in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi Line. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

Surrounding area

The station is located in a rural area.

External links

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Kamaishi Line

Hanamaki Nitanai Shin-Hanamaki Oyamada Tsuchizawa Haruyama Iwanebashi Miyamori Kashiwagidaira Masuzawa Arayamae Iwate-Futsukamachi Ayaori Tōno Aozasa Iwate-Kamigō Hirakura Ashigase Kamiarisu Rikuchū-Ōhashi Dōsen Matsukura Kosano Kamaishi

Coordinates: 39°24′31″N 141°11′38″E / 39.4087°N 141.1939°E / 39.4087; 141.1939

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