Station

Hachimantai

八幡平

Hachimantai
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Hachimantai Station opened on 17 October 1931 as Azukisawa Station on the privately built Akita Railway, serving the village of Hachimantai. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1934 and folded into the Japanese Government Railways, later JNR. The station took its present name on 1 April 1957, following the formation of the new Hachimantai village. It became unstaffed on 15 November 1982 and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the privatisation of JNR. A modern building modelled on the nearby Dainichireiki shrine replaced the original in March 2015 at one-fifth the former structure's size.

Notes

The 2015 replacement station building is roughly one-fifth the size of its predecessor and was modelled on the shrine hall of the nearby Dainichireiki Shrine.

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