Higashi-Aomori

Weekday departures: 50/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:49 / 23:45

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (7)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Aoimori Railway Line: Koyanagi ⇄ Tsutsui (Aomori)

Higashi-Aomori Station opened on 21 July 1968 as a Japanese National Railways stop when the Tōhoku Main Line was rerouted south of central Aomori, replacing Namiuchi Station on the abandoned alignment. Originally planned as a freight-only depot, it became a general station after local residents petitioned for passenger service. Small-parcel handling ran from 1974 to 1978, and the station was destaffed for passenger duties in 1986. JR privatisation on 1 April 1987 split operations between JR East and JR Freight, and on 4 December 2010 passenger services transferred to Aoimori Railway with the Tōhoku Shinkansen's extension to Shin-Aomori. JR Freight began handling JR-standard 30-foot and ISO 20-foot containers from March 2008, with LNG tank-container traffic also commencing from March 2008.

On 19 January 1998 four track workers clearing snow in the yard were struck by an oncoming train and killed, a disaster that prompted the disused old footbridge to be sealed off and replaced by the Tōryanse-bashi free passage.