History
Arayashimmachi Station opened on 30 October 1927 as a Ministry of Railways stop serving the village of Arasawa, with a Morioka Engine House overnight depot established on site. The station became the seat of the Hanawa Line Management Office in 1961, later a Morioka Engine Depot sub-area. Freight ended in 1973 and luggage in 1984; it was absorbed into JR East on 1 April 1987 and contracted out to JR East Tohoku Service in December 1999. The Midori-no-Madoguchi reservations office closed on 17 March 2023, and the station became fully unstaffed the following day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The site still holds the roundhouse and turntable of the former Morioka Engine Depot's Arayashimmachi sub-area, which remains in use for winter maintenance work.