History
Oiwake Station opened on 21 October 1902 as a Japanese National Railways station in Kanaashi Village, Minami-Akita District. Freight handling ended on 1 July 1966 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. The Oiwake Weroad east-west pedestrian overpass opened on 28 March 1996. The Midori-no-Madoguchi reserved-ticket counter was withdrawn on 30 March 2006 in favour of automatic ticket gates and a Kaeru-kun remote ticket machine, replaced by a reserved-seat ticket machine on 15 February 2012. The station's operations were outsourced on 1 October 2015 and the Oiwake stationmaster and assistant stationmaster roles were abolished. From 26 March 2016 all rapid trains began stopping. A renewal of the station building's exterior and interior was completed on 21 February 2018, and Suica IC card service became available to/from Akita and on the Oga Line on 27 May 2023. The Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Oiwake is the junction where the Oga Line branches off the Ōu Main Line, and all Oga Line trains continue through to Akita Station via the Ōu Main Line. Since 7 June 2019 the train-arrival melody has been the children's song "Dojokko Funakko", which has roots in the surrounding Kanaashi district.