History
Kita-Kanaoka Station began as Kanaoka Signal Stop on the Japan National Railways on 1 June 1944. It opened to passengers as a provisional halt on 18 January 1950 and was upgraded to a full station, taking the name Kita-Kanaoka, on 25 February 1952. Parcel handling was dropped in October 1971 and the station became unstaffed, with simple consignment sales handled by the local agricultural cooperative. A converted shipping-container building served as the station from 1982 until a purpose-built replacement opened in April 2006. The station was absorbed into JR East on 1 April 1987 and has been entirely unstaffed since May 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1982 until the current building opened in 2006, the station house was a repurposed shipping container.