Kakunodate

Known weekday departures: 36/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 40/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:09 / 22:19

Busiest hour in the available data: 10:00–11:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Akita Nairiku Line: no timetable data
• Tazawako Line: no timetable data

• Tazawako Line: Tazawako ⇄ Omagari

Kakunodate Station opened on 30 July 1921 as a station on the Obonai Railway, which was nationalised the following year and incorporated into the Japanese Government Railways. The Kakunodate Line, which later became the Akita Nairiku Railway, began operating from the station on 1 November 1971. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the JR portion came under JR East. Akita Shinkansen services arrived on 22 March 1997, making this an interchange between JR East's Tazawako Line, the Akita Shinkansen and the third-sector Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway. The current station building, designed to evoke a samurai residence, has been listed among the Top 100 Stations of Tōhoku.

The station building's exterior was designed to resemble a samurai residence, and former samurai residences (buke yashiki) stand nearby; the station has been selected as one of the Hundred Stations of Tōhoku.