History
Mukai-Noshiro Station opened on 1 February 1949 as a flag stop, and was promoted to a full station of the Japanese National Railways on 25 January 1952. It is a station on the Gonō Line and lies 6.1 km from the line's terminus at Higashi-Noshiro. Operations were contracted out from April 1965 and simplified again in 1984. Following the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East. In April 2020 administrative responsibility moved to Higashi-Noshiro, and on 1 April 2021 the consigned-ticket arrangement with Noshiro City was discontinued, making the station fully unattended after a high-school merger ended commuter demand. A new station building entered service on 25 September 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station went fully unattended on 1 April 2021 only because a merger of two local high schools dissolved the commuter base that had until then justified the consigned-ticket arrangement with Noshiro City.