History
Kanagi Station opened on 15 July 1930 on the Tsugaru Railway Line, becoming a through station with the line's further extension to Ōzawanai on 4 October the same year. It is today the only crossing-capable station on the Tsugaru Railway Line, and is located in Kanagi-machi Ashino, Goshogawara, Aomori. A new station building was completed in December 2003, sharing premises with the "Kanagi Kōryū Plaza." Goshogawara City, in the western half of Aomori Prefecture on the Tsugaru Peninsula, belongs to the prefecture's "Seihoku" (northwest) region; the city was first established on 1 October 1954 by the merger of Goshogawara Town and six surrounding villages, and now includes the former Shiura Village as an exclave. The novelist Dazai Osamu was born in the Kanagi-village Tsushima mansion in 1909 — that birthplace, the "Shayōkan," is the local sightseeing landmark closest to the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Tsugaru Railway company itself was founded in 1928 with its head office in Ōmachi, Goshogawara, and the present Gojo-Goshogawara–Kanagi route remains a private third-sector line — the home railway of the small-but-distinctive Tachi-Neputa Festival city.