Kuriyagawa Station is served by the Iwate Ginga Railway Line, and is located 5.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Morioka Station and 540.9 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station. Trains of the JR EastHanawa Line, which officially terminates at Kōma usually continue on to Morioka Station, stopping at all intermediate stations, including Kuriyagawa Station.
Station layout
Kuriyagawa Station has one island platform and one side platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.
Kuriyagawa Station was opened on November 1, 1918.[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987 and was transferred to the Iwate Ginga Railway on 1 September 2002.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 2967 passengers daily.[2]
^ abIwate Galaxy Railway Co., Ltd. "Kuriyagawa Station" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 30, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
^平成27年度 駅別乗降人員(1日平均) [Fiscal 2015 Station passenger figures (daily average)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Iwate Galaxy Railway Company. 2016. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.