Nishi-Hiranai

Weekday departures: 36/day · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:38 / 23:25

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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

• Aoimori Railway Line: Kominato ⇄ Asamushi-Onsen

Nishi-Hiranai Station opened on 1 October 1939 as a stop on the Government Railways' Tōhoku Main Line in the western part of Hiranai, Aomori Prefecture, installed primarily to serve a nearby sanatorium for disabled veterans. Regular freight services were withdrawn in November 1961 and the concrete elevated footbridge linking the two side platforms was installed on 1 January 1969. The station has been unstaffed since August 1970. With the JNR split on 1 April 1987 it came under JR East, and on 4 December 2010 the section was transferred to the Aoimori Railway Company following the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension to Shin-Aomori.

The station's original reason for being was access to a nearby sanatorium for disabled veterans, established alongside the wartime expansion of the Tōhoku Main Line.