History
Kase Station opened on 15 July 1930 on the Tsugaru Railway Line, and has been unattended since 1 October 2004; in March 2018 its crossing-loop equipment was removed, leaving it as a simple single-track station with a small wooden station building. It is located in Kanagi-machi Kase Hatayamasaki, Goshogawara, Aomori. Goshogawara City, in the western half of Aomori on the Tsugaru Peninsula, belongs to the prefecture's "Seihoku" region; city status was first conferred on 1 October 1954 by the merger of Goshogawara Town with six surrounding villages, and the former Shiura Village survives as an exclave. The Tsugaru Railway itself was established in 1928 with its head office in Ōmachi, Goshogawara.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
Kase Station's yard houses the preserved diesel car "Yume no Canvas-gō" (KiHa 22028): in 1997 SMAP's Katori Shingo and nine local schoolchildren painted the car for a Fuji-TV program, and it has been kept on display here since 2007, with a 2017 repaint event reuniting Katori and the (now-adult) original painters for "Oja-MAP!!" — a quirky living link between a tiny rural station and Japanese pop-television history.