The Ōfunato Line is a local railway line in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. It originally connected Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki to Sakari Station in Ōfunato,
KiHa 100 DMU at Kesennuma Station, October 2006
KiHa 100 series diesel multiple unit
Hino Blue Ribbon City bus used on BRT services
Sanriku Railway is a railway company in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. The company and its lines are also known as Santetsu. The company was founded in 1981, as the first "third-sector" railway l
Ōfunato Line
…closed as a railway on 1 April 2020. The line connects with the Kesennuma Line at Kesennuma Station and formerly connected with the privately owned Sanriku Railway's Minami-Riasu Line at Sakari Station in Ōfunato. The Ichinoseki – Kesennuma section opened in stages between 1925 and 1929, with the Kesennuma – Sakari…
A train crossing the Ōsawa Viaduct, September 2015
Santetsu 36-700 series DMU