History
Kanehama Station is an unstaffed JR East Hachinohe Line stop in the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, 24.3 kilometres from the line's starting point at Hachinohe Station. It opened on 10 December 1956 as an unstaffed Japanese National Railways station handling diesel-railcar passenger services only. At the 1 April 1987 JNR break-up it transferred to JR East, and from 1 December 2015 it has been managed from Hachinohe Station after staffing was rationalised at Hon-Hachinohe Station. The single side platform, sited in a cutting, serves one bi-directional track; there is no station building, only a small rain shelter on the platform.
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
The platform is set into a railway cutting rather than at ground level — passengers descend from the road overpass nearby to reach the side platform.