History
Jūniko Station is a JR East Gonō Line stop in the town of Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture, 46.6 kilometres from the terminus at Higashi-Noshiro. It opened on 15 September 1959 as the Jūniko Signal Stop, a temporary halt serving visitors to the nearby Jūniko Lakes. At the 1 April 1987 privatisation it transferred to JR East and was promoted to a temporary station served only by the Resort Shirakami rapid; on 1 February 1988 it became a full station with regular local-train calls. The current station building, built by former Iwasaki Village to promote tourism, opened on 19 March 2005 and houses a tourist information office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current station building was paid for by former Iwasaki Village specifically as a tourism gateway to the Jūniko Lakes and now houses a tourist information office staffed by the Fukaura Tourism Association.