History
Hon-Hachinohe Station opened on 4 January 1894 as Hachinohe Station on a Nippon Railway branch from Shiriuchi, the present-day Hachinohe Station. Nationalisation in November 1906 placed it in government hands, and a year later it was renamed Hachinohe-eki (eight-gate spelling) when the line was christened the Hachinohe Line. Passenger service on the Hon-Hachinohe to Minato segment ended in April 1944, leaving the section freight-only. On 1 February 1971 the present name Hon-Hachinohe took effect so the inland junction at Shiriuchi could inherit the simpler Hachinohe-eki title. The platform was elevated in July 1977, JR privatisation took place on 1 April 1987, and a refurbished station building reopened on 31 July 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Although still listed as a JR Freight depot, the station has not seen a freight train since June 2006, when fuel runs from the adjacent Hon-Hachinohe goods yard to the U.S. military base at Misawa via Sannohe ended.