History
Ōgita Station opened on 1 July 1914 as the then-terminus of the privately built Akita Railway from Ōdate to Ōgita, serving the town of Ōgita (read at the time as "Ōgida"). The next year, on 19 January 1915, the line was extended onward to Ōtaki-Onsen. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1934, the station's reading shifting to its current form on the same day. Freight handling ended in February 1984 and parcels in March 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East. The CTC modernisation of 1 June 1999 removed the passing loop and ended on-site train operations; the station became fully unattended on 1 April 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station's reading was changed from "Ōgida" to "Ōgita" on the day the Akita Railway was nationalised in 1934 — the same date the line passed to the Ministry of Railways.