History
Tsugaru-Futamata Station opened on 21 October 1958 as a Japanese National Railways station when the Kanita–Mimmaya segment of the Tsugaru Line was built; after the 1987 privatisation it came under JR East. Located in Imabetsu, Higashitsugaru District, Aomori, it sits immediately next to (but is not the same station as) the Hokkaido Shinkansen's Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station, which opened on 26 March 2016 as a successor to the Kaikyō Line's Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station. Imabetsu Town is on the north end of the Tsugaru Peninsula, facing Mimaya Bay; the present municipality dates from 31 March 1955, when Imabetsu Village and Ippongi Village were merged. The Imabetsu article notes that, despite hosting a Shinkansen station, it is the least-populous municipality in Japan with a Shinkansen stop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Tsugaru Line itself is now in suspended service: heavy rain in August 2022 damaged the Kanita–Mimmaya segment and the entire stretch — including Tsugaru-Futamata — has been closed to trains ever since, with abolition scheduled for 1 April 2027 per the agreement reached on 10 June 2025.