History
Konakano Station opened on 1 June 1934 as a station of the Japanese National Railways, and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. Staff dispatch from Hon-Hachinohe ended on 10 December 2005, making the station unattended; it is now managed from Hachinohe Station as an elevated stop with a single side platform. The station's name preserves the name of Konakano Town, one of the four municipalities that on 1 May 1929 merged to form Hachinohe City: Hachinohe Town joined with Konakano Town, Minato Town and Same Village to create a city of just over 51,500 residents. Hachinohe is today the second-largest city in Aomori Prefecture by population, a designated core city and the centre of the Nanbu (southern Aomori) region.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Same Station and Konakano Station, both on the Hachinohe Line, take their names from two of the four pre-merger municipalities — Same Village and Konakano Town — that joined with Hachinohe Town and Minato Town on 1 May 1929 to incorporate the city of Hachinohe. The two stations are only one stop apart on the Hachinohe Line (Hon-Hachinohe → Konakano → Mutsu-Minato).