History
Fukaura Station opened on 13 December 1934 as a station on the Japanese National Railways' Gonō Line, serving the port town of Fukaura in Aomori Prefecture. The station has long been the operational pivot of the line: through services are divided here, and every "Resort Shirakami" sightseeing express stops at the platforms. Freight handling ended on 20 September 1980 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The Midori no Madoguchi window closed on 15 March 2024 and the station became unstaffed the following day, with operations transferred to Goshogawara Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original station building burned down in the early morning of 1 April 1963 when a fire at a nearby sawmill spread under high winds, destroying eight station-related structures before the current building was rebuilt the following March.