History
Ishikawa (Konan Railway) opened on 26 January 1952 as Shin-Ishikawa Station on the Hirosaki Electric Railway. The line was sold to the Konan Railway on 1 October 1970 and the station became contract-managed. Contract management ended and the station was made unstaffed on 1 July 1972, contract management resumed on 1 October 1974, and on 1 April 1986 the station was renamed simply Ishikawa. Contract management ended again on an unrecorded date and the station has since been unstaffed. Station number KW 10. The station has one island platform with two tracks, plus a separate freight siding where maintenance hopper cars marked 'Ishikawa Station Joubi' (permanently assigned) are sometimes parked.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Trains arriving and departing from this station run on the right-hand track — an unusual convention for a Japanese railway. The same-municipality JR East Ishikawa Station on the Ōu Main Line lies about 1.5 km away, and Gijuku-Kōkō-mae Station is in fact closer to this station than the JR station of the same name.