History
Futada Station opened on 9 November 1913 as a Japanese Government Railways (JGR) stop on what is now the Oga Line, serving the village of Tennō in Akita Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1970 and parcels in February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East, and a new station building was completed in October 1994. Suica acceptance began on 27 May 2023. The station is now a simple-agency stop entrusted to the city of Katagami and managed remotely from Tsuchizaki.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
JTB timetables list Futada as the representative station for Katagami City, even though the city hall completed in 2015 is actually closer to the next stop, Kami-Futada.