History
Ishikawa Station is a JR East stop on the Ōu Main Line in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, 440.7 kilometres from the line's southern terminus at Fukushima. It opened on 7 July 1916 as a Japanese Government Railways station serving Ishikawa village in the former Minamitsugaru District. Freight services ended on 1 October 1970 and parcels handling on 1 October 1971, at which point the station became unstaffed. It came under JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The station marks the change between single track south to Ōwani-Onsen and double track north to Hirosaki; the parallel Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line crosses the JR alignment on an overpass just south.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station marks the transition from single track south to double track north on the Ōu Main Line, and the Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line crosses the JR right-of-way on an overpass immediately south of the platforms.