History
Shirasawa Station opened on 21 June 1899 as a general station of the government railway in Yatate Village, Kita-Akita District; together with the neighbouring Jinba Station it was one of the first stations to open in Akita Prefecture. The line was formally designated the Ōu Main Line on 12 October 1909. The station became unstaffed on 12 April 1984 and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. Work on a new station building began in early September 1992 and the new building entered service in early December that year, with a completion ceremony on 21 December. On 1 December 2018 management was transferred from Ōdate to Higashi-Noshiro Station, and the Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Together with the neighbouring Jinba Station, Shirasawa was one of the first stations to open in Akita Prefecture. The 1992 rebuilt station building, a 44.9 m² single-storey steel-framed structure that cost ¥23.4 million, has a semicircular bench inside its waiting room.