Rikuchū-Orii Station

Rikuchū-Orii Station 陸中折居駅
Rikuchū-Orii Station, May 2013
Location	Mizusawa-ku Shinjo-aze, Ōshū, Iwate （岩手県奥州市水沢区真城字要害） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Main Line
History
Opened	1928

Rikuchū-Orii Station (陸中折居駅, Rikuchū-Orii-eki) is a railway station on the Tōhoku Main Line in Ōshū, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Rikuchū-Orii Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 465.1 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Rikuchū-Orii Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by an overhead crossing. The station is unattended.

Platforms

1	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Kitakami and Morioka
2	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Hiraizumi and Ichinoseki

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tōhoku Main Line
Maesawa		-	Mizusawa

History

Rikuchū-Orii Signal stop was opened on 15 January 1924 and elevated to a full passenger station opened on 25 November 1928. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station building was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and a new station building was completed in December 2011.

Surrounding area

Kitakami River
Maesawa High School

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rikuchū-Orii Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Tōhoku Main Line

Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)	Ueno Oku Akabane Urawa Saitama-Shintoshin Ōmiya Toro Higashi-Ōmiya Hasuda Shiraoka Shin-Shiraoka Kuki Higashi-Washinomiya Kurihashi Koga Nogi Mamada Oyama Koganei Jichiidai Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Utsunomiya Okamoto Hōshakuji Ujiie Kamasusaka Kataoka Yaita Nozaki Nishi-Nasuno Nasushiobara Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka	Kuroiso Takaku Kurodahara Toyohara Shirasaka Shin-Shirakawa Shirakawa Kutano Izumizaki Yabuki Kagamiishi Sukagawa Asaka-Nagamori Kōriyama Hiwada Gohyakugawa Motomiya Sugita Nihonmatsu Adachi Matsukawa Kanayagawa Minami-Fukushima Fukushima Higashi-Fukushima Date Koori Fujita Kaida Kosugō Shiroishi Higashi-Shiroishi Kita-Shirakawa Ōgawara Funaoka Tsukinoki Iwanuma Tatekoshi Natori Minami-Sendai Taishidō Nagamachi Sendai Higashi-Sendai Iwakiri (Shin-Rifu Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō Kokufu-Tagajō Shiogama Matsushima Atago Shinainuma Kashimadai Matsuyama-Machi Kogota Tajiri Semine Umegasawa Nitta Ishikoshi Yushima Hanaizumi Shimizuhara Arikabe Ichinoseki Yamanome Hiraizumi Maesawa Rikuchū-Orii Mizusawa Kanegasaki Rokuhara Kitakami Murasakino Hanamaki Hanamaki Airport Ishidoriya Hizume Shiwachūō Furudate Yahaba Iwate-Iioka Senbokuchō Morioka

Coordinates: 39°05′39″N 141°08′27″E / 39.0942°N 141.1407°E / 39.0942; 141.1407

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