History
Shimokita Station is a JR East station on the Ōminato Line in the city of Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, located 55.5 km from the line's terminus at Noheji. It opened on 6 December 1939 as a station of the Japanese Government Railways. Until 2001 the station was also the terminus for the Shimokita Kōtsū Ōhata Line, which was discontinued and replaced by a bus service. Following the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, operations passed to JR East. The current station building was completely rebuilt and entered service on 23 January 2009 as part of a forecourt redevelopment project begun in 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shimokita is the northernmost station on Honshu and the northernmost station operated by JR East; the platform-facing facade carries a sign reading "Teppen no Eki" ("station at the top").