History
The station opened on 1 September 1891 as Asamushi Station on the privately built Nippon Railway, became a Government Railways stop after nationalisation on 1 November 1906, and lost regular freight handling in February 1962. A 1966 landslide closed the line briefly, prompting a temporary high-ground stop and bus substitution; the Asamushi Tunnel reopened in March 1967. The station was renamed Asamushi-Onsen on 1 November 1986, came under JR East at the 1987 JNR split, and was selected to Tōhoku's One Hundred Best Stations in 2002. The section was transferred to the Aoimori Railway Company on 4 December 2010 with the Shin-Aomori Shinkansen extension.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A free open-air foot bath sits beside the station building; towels can be borrowed from the next-door ryokan-union information desk, though night-time use is now restricted on safety grounds.