Kintaichi-Onsen

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:08 / 23:21

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Iwate Galaxy Railway Line: Metoki ⇄ Tomai

Kintaichi-Onsen Station opened on 18 October 1909 as Kintaichi Station (金田一駅) on the Japanese Government Railways, in what is now the city of Ninohe in Iwate Prefecture. Passenger and freight operations began on 25 November 1909. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1973 and baggage on 1 February 1983, when the station also became unstaffed and was placed under the Kitafukuoka (later Ninohe) stationmaster. It was renamed Kintaichi-Onsen Station on 1 February 1987, and on 1 April 1987 it passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) at the privatisation of Japan National Railways. On 1 December 2002, on the Tōhoku Shinkansen's extension to Hachinohe, the station transferred to the third-sector Iwate Galaxy Railway Company. It is now a contracted-out station selling hard-card tickets.

The station still sells hard-card paper tickets and supplementary fare receipts at a staffed window, a rarity on modernised Japanese railways.