History
Matsuba Station is on the Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway's Nairiku Line in Semboku, Akita Prefecture, 75.0 kilometres from the terminus at Takanosu. It opened on 1 November 1970 as the southern terminus of the Japanese National Railways Kakunodate Line, serving what was then the village of Nishiki. With privatisation on 1 November 1986 the line passed to the Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway as the Akita Nairiku Minami Line, with Matsuba still terminal. On 1 April 1989 the railway opened the connecting section from Hitachinai through to Matsuba, unifying the route as the Nairiku Line and making the station a through stop. The station building was renewed in July 2022 to a design by four Akita University of Art students.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although a sign at the station proclaims it "the station closest to Lake Tazawa," the lake actually sits about 3.7 kilometres away in a straight line and roughly six kilometres by road.