was a
JR East
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...
railway station located in
Rikuzentakata
is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. In the census of 2010, the city had a population of 23,302 (2005: 24,709), and a population density of 100 persons per km². The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to the c ...
,
Iwate Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at , with a population of 1,210,534 (as of October 1, 2020). Iwate Prefecture borders Aomori Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefectur ...
,
Japan
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. The station, as well as most of the structures in the surrounding area, was destroyed by the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...
and has now been replaced by a provisional
bus rapid transit
Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability and other quality features than a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes ...
line.
Lines
Wakinosawa Station was served by the
Ōfunato Line, and is located 88.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at
Ichinoseki Station.
Station layout
Wakinosawa Station had a single
side platform, serving traffic in both directions. The station was unattended.
History
Wakinosawa Station opened on 15 December 1933. On 23 May 1960, a
tsunami caused by the
Great Chilean earthquake submerged both this station and neighbouring
Otomo Station
was a JR East railway station located in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The station, as well as most of the structures in the surrounding area, was destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and has now been replaced by a pro ...
, making the line temporarily impassable until the water is removed. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the
privatization of the
Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. The station was one of six stations on the Ōfunato Line destroyed by the 11 March 2011
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Services have now been replaced by a
BRT.
Surrounding area
*Fumon-in temple
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
External links
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{{Ofunato Line
Railway stations in Iwate Prefecture
Ōfunato Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1933
Rikuzentakata, Iwate
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan closed in 2011