History
Ōwani-Onsen Station, on the Ōu Main Line in the town of Ōwani, Aomori Prefecture, forms a combined facility with the adjacent Ōwani Station on the Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line; the two are linked by a shared footbridge. The JR side opened on 21 October 1895 as Ōwani Station on the Ōu North Line of the government railways, with the footbridge added in 1915 and the station building rebuilt in 1921. Freight ended in 1980, parcels in 1985, and the station was destaffed and simply-contracted in November 1986. It passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation and was renamed Ōwani-Onsen Station on 16 March 1991. From 26 March 2016 it became a stop for the newly-introduced rapid services.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The JR and Kōnan Railway stations are physically interlocked: the Kōnan Railway south entrance opens directly onto JR's track 1, and the Ōwani-Line platforms are reached via the JR footbridge.