History
Kado Station opened on 1 August 1902 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways' Ou Main Line, serving the town of Kado in Akita Prefecture. The JGR became the Japan National Railways after the Second World War, and the station was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. Kado is a simple-consignment station administered remotely from Higashi-Noshiro and operated by the Mitane municipal authority, with point-of-sale terminals for ordinary, express and reserved-seat JR tickets. The layout comprises one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Track 2 at Kado is retained primarily so that freight trains can change direction here, even though regular passenger services do not use it.