History
Itayanagi Station opened on 25 September 1918 as a stop on the privately owned Mutsu Railway, serving the town of Itayanagi in Aomori Prefecture. The Mutsu Railway was nationalised on 1 June 1927 and the station was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways' Goshogawara Line, later renamed the Gonō Line. The current station building dates from January 1934. Freight handling ended in 1984 and parcel handling in 1985. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The Midori no Madoguchi staffed window closed on 31 March 2019 and the station has been unstaffed since 1 August 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1969 film 略称・連続射殺魔 (Ryakushō: Renzoku Shasatsuma), a chronicle of murderer Norio Nagayama's life, features Itayanagi Station as one of its locations.