History
Kenyoshi Station opened on 1 July 1897 as a station of the privately owned Nippon Railway. When Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906, it became a station of the Tōhoku Main Line under the Japanese Government Railways and later Japan National Railways (JNR). Freight operations were discontinued in November 1982, and from February 1983 the station was managed from Hachinohe Station. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR it passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and on 1 December 2002 it was transferred to the third-sector Aoimori Railway Company on the extension of the Tōhoku Shinkansen to Hachinohe. The limited express Hatsukari called once daily between 1985 and 1993.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1985 to 1993 the limited express Hatsukari made one round-trip stop here each day, a rare scheduled-express call at an otherwise unstaffed rural station on the Tōhoku Main Line.