History
Misawa Station opened on 1894-04-01 as Furumaki Station on the Nippon Railway. It joined the Tōhoku Main Line under the Japanese Government Railways when Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1906-07-01. Towada Railway connected its own Furumaki stop on 1922-09-04, the two operations sharing a building. JNR's Furumaki was renamed Misawa on 1961-03-20, following Towada's similar rename on 1961-03-01. A bridge-over-track station building entered service in stages in March 1987, and the JNR portion passed to JR East at privatisation on 1987-04-01. The parallel Tōhoku Main Line transferred to Aoimori Railway on 2010-12-04, and the Towada Kankō Electric Railway shut down on 2012-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
From 1894 until the 1987 rebuild as an overhead concourse station, the east and west exits were not connected within the station, the first time they were linked.