History
Ashino-Kōen Station is a station on the privately operated Tsugaru Railway Line in the city of Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, located 14.3 km from the line's terminus at Tsugaru-Goshogawara. It opened on 4 October 1930. The original station building, a single-storey wooden structure with a copper roof and pentagonal half-hipped gable, was replaced in 1975 but preserved on site. The building features in Osamu Dazai's novel "Tsugaru" and is now operated by the NPO "Kanagi Genki Club" as a cafe and second-hand bookstore. It received protection as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on 19 December 2014 and is the last remaining structure on the Tsugaru Railway dating from the line's opening.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1930 wooden station building, preserved on site and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2014, now houses a cafe and second-hand bookshop run by a local NPO and appears in Osamu Dazai's novel "Tsugaru".