History
Mutsu-Akaishi Station opened on 26 November 1929 as a Japanese Government Railways station serving the village of Akaishi in Nishitsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture; it has been unattended since March 1984 and passed to JR East with the 1987 privatisation of the JNR. The former Akaishi Village merged into Ajigasawa Town on 31 March 1955, together with Nakamura, Narusawa and Maido villages. Ajigasawa today is a town of about 8,000 people on the Sea of Japan in western Aomori Prefecture; it faces the open sea to the north and borders Akita Prefecture along the Shirakami-sanchi UNESCO World Heritage site to the south, and its territory of 343 km² includes Mt. Iwaki and the Shirakami range as named features.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Ajigasawa is one of the gateways to the Shirakami-sanchi UNESCO World Heritage site, which forms the town's southern border with Akita Prefecture; the municipality's tourism listings highlight the World-Heritage range, the Kurokuma-no-taki waterfall (one of "Japan's 100 Waterfalls"), and the Ajigasawa beach, which the municipality describes as the closest sea-bathing beach to nearby Hirosaki City.