History
Tomine Station opened on 25 January 1907 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways, serving the village of Futatsui in what is now Noshiro, Akita Prefecture. After parcel handling ended on 1 October 1971 the station was made unstaffed, though a daytime ticket clerk was kept on until February 1972. From March 1972 the "Tomine Nōkyō Super Store" inside the station building took over consigned ticket sales; that store closed in March 2006 and the station has been fully unstaffed since. The wooden station building was rebuilt in 2008. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as an Ōu Main Line station 365.5 km from Fukushima.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
For 34 years the ticket window at Tomine was run not by railway staff but by an agricultural-cooperative grocery store that occupied the station building from 1972 until 2006.