History
Nukazawa Station opened on 3 December 1956 as a station on the Japanese National Railways, serving the town of Takanosu in what is now Kitaakita, Akita Prefecture. It became fully unattended in October 1970 after staff reductions through the year. Following the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a station on the Ōu Main Line, 388.1 km from Fukushima. From 1988 it used a former freight wagon converted into a station building; this was replaced on 1 July 2009 by a new single-storey building styled after the Tsuzureko great drum (綴子大太鼓) — a 9.8-square-metre steel-frame structure designed by the Akita Architectural Technology Centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building since 2009 is shaped like the giant Tsuzureko festival drum for which the surrounding district is famous — a 9.8-square-metre miniature drum standing in for a station house.