Horinai Station

Horinai Station
堀内駅
Horinai Station in May 2010
Location
Prefecture Iwate
(See other stations in Iwate)
District Shimohei
Village Fudai
Postal code028-8301
(in Japanese)岩手県下閉伊郡普代村
History
Year opened 1975
Rail services
Operator(s) Sanriku Railway Company
Line(s) Kita-Rias Line
There are no bus services at this station

Horinai Station (堀内駅 Horinai-eki) is a railway station on the Sanriku Railway Company’s Kita-Rias Line located in the village of Fudai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is 51.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Miyako Station.

Station layout

Horinai Station has a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station is unmanned.

History

Horinai Station opened on 20 July 1975 as a station on the Japan National Railways (JNR) Kuji Line. On 1 April 1984, upon the privatization of the Kuji Line, the station came under the control of the Sanriku Railway Company. Following the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, services on a portion of the Sanriku Railway were suspended. The portion from Rikuchū-Noda to Tanohata resumed operations on 1 April 2012. The station was used as the set for the fictional “Sodegahama Station” in the NHK morning television drama Amachan which aired from April to September 2013.

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Sanriku Railway Company
Shiraikaigan   Local   Noda-Tamagawa

Surrounding area

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Coordinates: 40°03′07.03″N 141°51′33.30″E / 40.0519528°N 141.8592500°E