History
Higashi-Noshiro Station opened on 1901-11-01 as Noshiro Station on the Japanese Government Railways, in what was then Ōgibuchi Village in Akita's Yamamoto District. It was renamed Hataori Station on 1909-11-01 — when the in-town station took the Noshiro name — and again to Higashi-Noshiro on 1943-06-15. The station became the southern terminus of the 147.2-kilometre Gonō Line and a junction on the Ōu Main Line, 355.4 kilometres from Fukushima. Japan Freight Railway retains second-class trackage rights here, though no scheduled freight has run since 2013. JR East took over passenger operation at the 1987-04-01 privatisation; in March 2022 the station's management was reorganised as the Higashi-Noshiro Comprehensive Centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The platform footbridge stairs were wrapped in a Tenkū no Fuyajō motif on 2020-03-26, and the waiting room contains the preserved cab of a KiHa 58-23 diesel car formerly assigned to the Akita rolling-stock depot.