History
Funakoshi Station opened on 8 November 1914 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways line that became the Oga Line, serving the town of Funakoshi in Akita Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 21 March 1980 and parcels in February 1984, and the staffed station was outsourced in 1983 before reverting to a simple unstaffed agency stop in November 1986. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operations to JR East. A rebuilt station building opened on 12 March 1999 and the Kiosk concession had closed shortly before that, in December 1997. Suica acceptance began on 27 May 2023, and the station became fully unstaffed on 12 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's platform was once an island serving two faces, but the inner track was lifted, leaving the disused face still visible alongside the rebuilt 1999 station building.