History
Tanesashi-Kaigan Station is an unstaffed JR East Hachinohe Line stop in the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, 19.6 kilometres from the line's starting point at Hachinohe Station. It opened on 10 November 1924 as Tanesashi Station of the Japanese Government Railways. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1962, parcels on 16 November 1982; the passing siding was also removed at the latter date and the station destaffed. It came under JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The station was renamed Tanesashi-Kaigan ("Tanesashi Coast") on 1 December 2002 to promote tourism in conjunction with the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension to Hachinohe.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station's new building, in service from 1 December 2025, is modelled on bird's-eye-view painter Yoshida Hatsusaburō's studio "Chōkansō," and its interior ceiling reproduces his 1953 Hachinohe panorama.