History
Same Station opened on 10 November 1924 as a station of the Ministry of Railways, and became a JR East station on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of the JNR. It is the nearest station to Kabushima, a small offshore island in the Same district designated a national natural monument and famous as a black-tailed gull (umineko) breeding ground, and the Same Station article notes that it is the easternmost staffed station in Aomori Prefecture. Hachinohe City was itself incorporated on 1 May 1929 by the merger of Hachinohe Town with the towns of Konakano and Minato and the village of Same — the same Same that gives this station its name — with a starting population of 51,529. The Hachinohe article also records the 1929 designation of nearby Sameura Port as a commercial port.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Same Station's opening in 1924 predates Hachinohe City's very existence: the station served Same Village on the Hachinohe Line for almost five years before Same Village merged with Hachinohe Town, Konakano Town and Minato Town on 1 May 1929 to incorporate the city of Hachinohe.