Orikabe Station
railway station in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Orikabe Station (折壁駅, Orikabe-eki) is a railway station located in the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Orikabe Station is served by the Ōfunato Line, and is located 47.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ichinoseki Station.
Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a level crossing. The platforms are unnumbered. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Orikabe Station opened on September 2, 1928. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in November 2007.
“Orikabe Station” enters the record as railway station in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orikabe, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7102664. Authority coordinates are 38.940, 141.452. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 1987 and 2007.
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This entry incorporates text from “Orikabe Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.