History
Oga Station opened on 16 December 1916 as Funakawa Station (船川駅) when the Funakawa Light Railway was extended from Hatachi to Funakawa, serving the town of Funakawaminato in Akita Prefecture. The Funakawa freight branch to Funakawa-kō opened on 10 June 1937. The line was renamed the Oga Line on 1 April 1968 and the station was simultaneously renamed Oga. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 placed the station under JR East. A traditional folk-house-style refurbishment in October 2012 added a pair of Namahage statues to the forecourt, and on 1 July 2018 the station building itself was rebuilt and moved roughly 100 metres south, closer to the end of the line, to support Oga peninsula tourism.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
EV-E801 series ACCUM battery-electric trains charge their on-board batteries from a ground-side overhead system at platform 1, raising the pantograph after arrival and lowering it again before departing onto the non-electrified line.