History
Chūō-Hirosaki Station opened on 26 January 1952 as the northern terminus of the Hirosaki Electric Railway's new line into central Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture. The Hirosaki Electric Railway was absorbed by the Kōnan Railway on 1 October 1970, making the station the northern terminus of the Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line. The station became a fully consignment-operated stop on 1 April 1986, with operations consigned to outside staff from 1 April 1997 — a model that today is run by a group of retired Kōnan Railway employees. A new station-front plaza opened for public use on 28 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Chūō-Hirosaki was chosen for Tōhoku's "100 Best Stations" in 2002 as "a station kind to summer travellers, near the cherry-blossom landmark of Hirosaki Park and cooled by river breezes from the adjacent Tsuchibuchi River."