History
Nonai Station opened on 16 July 1893 as a station of the Nippon Railway in what is now Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture. After nationalisation it became a Japanese Government Railways and then JNR/JR East station on the Tōhoku Main Line, and on 4 December 2010 it transferred to Aoimori Railway when the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to Shin-Aomori and the parallel conventional line between Aomori and Hachinohe was handed over. The current station building, on an embankment about 1.6 km closer to Aomori than the original site, opened on 12 March 2011 — though service did not begin until 14 March because the line was suspended in the wake of the previous day's Tōhoku earthquake. Aomori City is the prefectural capital and, together with Hachinohe, one of Aomori Prefecture's two core cities; it sits at the head of Aomori Bay and grew up as the Edo-period port town and transport hub of the prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
The Aoimori Railway Line that Nonai sits on is the former Tōhoku Main Line section between Aomori and Hachinohe, transferred from JR East to the third-sector Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010 when the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended through to Shin-Aomori — the Aomori article lists this handover among the prefectural capital's major modern transport events.