History
Kamikitachō Station opened on September 1, 1891 as Numazaki Station on the privately operated Nippon Railway, sited 57.4 kilometres from what is now Aomori Station. The line was nationalised on July 1, 1906, bringing the station into the Japanese Government Railways. It was renamed Kamikitachō on October 1, 1959. With the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, operational control passed to JR East. On December 4, 2010 — the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended north to Shin-Aomori — the parallel conventional line was transferred to Aoimori Railway, and the station passed to the third-sector operator. The station went fully unstaffed on March 18, 2023 following the closure of its ticket window the day before.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Daily boardings here climbed from 213 in 2010, the station's last year under JR East, to 554 in 2018 under Aoimori Railway — making it the busiest stop on the Aoimori Line in the town of Tōhoku, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe.