Kogawara

Weekday departures: 35/day · Sat & holiday departures: 35/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:10 / 23:27

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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

• Aoimori Railway Line: Kamikitacho ⇄ Misawa

Kogawara Station opened on August 1, 1944 as Kogawara Signal Stop on the Tōhoku Main Line, raised to full passenger-station status on June 10, 1953. Parcels handling ended on August 15, 1971, when the station also became unattended; a simple concrete station building replaced the original in March 1977. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987, operational control passed to JR East. On December 4, 2010, with the Tōhoku Shinkansen's full extension to Shin-Aomori, the parallel conventional line — including this station — was transferred to Aoimori Railway Company, under which it continues to operate as an unstaffed two-platform stop 53.5 kilometres from Aomori.

The station and its neighbouring lake share a name with diverging readings: the lake was renamed from "Kogawara-numa" to "Ogawara-ko" on January 1, 1958, but the station kept its earlier reading "Kogawara," leaving the two place-names spelled identically but read differently.