History
Ōtaki-Onsen Station opened on 19 January 1915 as a stop on the privately built Akita Railway, serving the town of Jūnisho in Akita Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1934, becoming part of the Japanese Government Railways and later the Japan National Railways. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a station on the Hanawa Line, 92.1 km from the line's terminus at Kōma. In September 1999 the station's remaining wooden railway-signals were taken out of service, and in December of the same year the station was made fully unstaffed. It has a single island platform serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a level walkway across the rails.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.