History
Noshiro Station opened on 1 July 1908 as Noshiromachi Station (能代町駅), a freight-handling stop on the Imperial Government Railways serving Noshiromachi in Akita Prefecture; passenger services began on 15 October the same year. It was renamed Noshiro Station on 1 November 1909. A Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened in December 1970 and closed in March 2006. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as the principal station of the Gonō Line, 3.9 km from the line's terminus at Higashi-Noshiro. The wooden building was renovated in September 2013 ahead of the Akita Destination Campaign, and from 1 April 2020 the station was contracted out, with management transferred to Higashi-Noshiro.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A basketball hoop on the platform lets passengers on certain "Resort Shirakami" services try a free-throw during the station stop — make the shot and you collect a souvenir, a nod to Noshiro's reputation as a basketball town.