History
Ōminato Station opened on 25 September 1921 as a Japanese Government Railways station and is the northern terminus of the Ōminato Line, 58.4 km from the southern terminus at Noheji. Freight handling ended on 15 March 1972 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. In 2002 it was selected for the Tōhoku Hundred Stations award, and the building was renovated in December 2010. The travel centre closed in November 2012, and on 1 December 2021 the station was outsourced for operations, with management transferred from a resident stationmaster to Aomori Station. In 2019 Ōminato signed a sister-station agreement with Aizuwakamatsu.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Ōminato is the northern terminus of the line, it lies slightly south of the preceding Shimokita Station; rather than claim the "northernmost station on Honshū" title, the entrance bears a sign reading "the terminus at the top."