History
Jūnisho Station opened on 25 December 1915 as a freight-only stop on the privately built Akita Railway, serving the town of Jūnisho in Akita Prefecture; passenger services began on 5 January 1916. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1934, becoming part of the JGR and later the JNR. Freight handling ended in April 1970 and the passing loop was removed in March 1972. A planned unstaffing that November was postponed after vehement local opposition; the station was eventually downgraded through consigned operation in 1982 and unstaffed in March 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a station on the Hanawa Line, 89.6 km from the terminus at Kōma. A simple replacement building entered service in November 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
A planned 1972 unstaffing was postponed after fierce local protests — Jūnisho only became truly unstaffed in 1985, more than a decade later.