History
Futatsui Station opened on 1 November 1901 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways, serving the town of Nanakura in Akita Prefecture. From 25 September 1922 until 1 March 1940 it also connected to the Nakanishi Tokugorō Light Railway, a private narrow-gauge feeder. The JGR became JNR after the Second World War. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a station on the Ōu Main Line, 372.2 km from Fukushima. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 12 March 2021 and the station was contracted out to Noshiro City as a consigned operation from the following day, retaining staffed ticket sales but no platform-side gateline. Limited express "Tsugaru" services still call here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although limited-express "Tsugaru" trains still stop at Futatsui, it is unusually run as a consigned operation by Noshiro City rather than directly staffed by JR East — initial plans called for outright unstaffing, but the city stepped in to preserve a ticket window.