History
Ichinohe Station opened on February 15, 1893, originally written 一ノ戸駅, on the Nippon Railway in what is now Ichinohe town, Iwate Prefecture. The kanji characters were changed to the current form (一戸駅) on November 1, 1907, after the line's nationalisation. A locomotive sub-depot operated here from 1947, reflecting the steep climb over Jūsanbongi Pass; that role gradually declined after the 1968 electrification and double-tracking of the line. With the April 1, 1987 JNR privatisation operations passed to JR East. On December 1, 2002, when the Tōhoku Shinkansen reached Hachinohe, the station was transferred to the third-sector Iwate Ginga Railway Company.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
In July 2021, the site of a short-lived Ministop convenience store inside the station was converted into "Ichidoki Hiroba", a town-run community gathering space.