History
Hachimori Station opened on 26 April 1926 as Tsubaki Station (椿駅) under the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), serving the village of Hachimori in Akita Prefecture. The Japan National Railways (JNR) inherited the station after World War II. When the neighbouring Hachimori Station was renamed Higashi-Hachimori in October 1959 in response to the relocation of the town hall, Tsubaki Station took on the name Hachimori Station on 1 November 1959. A new station building was completed in 1985, the line came under East Japan Railway Company (JR East) at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR, and the station has been unattended since around 1990.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was selected for the Tōhoku Top 100 Stations list in 2002, recognised for its station building constructed from local Akita cedar.