History
The site was first used as Aoyama Signal Station, opened on the JNR Tōhoku Main Line on 1 November 1960. After the Morioka–Aoyama section was double-tracked on 8 December 1964 and the Aoyama–Kuriyagawa section on 4 August 1965, the signal station was abolished. The present passenger station was authorised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on 30 August 2004; construction began on 18 December 2004 and Aoyama Station opened on the IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway Line on 18 March 2006. On 18 March 2008 the new Zenkunen-guchi exit opened and the existing exits were renamed Aoyama-guchi (west) and Kamidō-guchi (east). On 16 November 2015 the IGR head office relocated to the second and third floors of a newly built south-side station building; the existing entrance was renamed Aoyama-kita-guchi and the new south-side wicket became the Aoyama-minami-guchi, with the south-side bicycle parking and a connecting passage toward Kuriyagawa Junior High School entering service. Restaurants and shops inside the new building opened on 20 November 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Aoyama is a relatively unusual case where a third-sector railway operator built a brand-new station and then moved its corporate headquarters into a new station building on the south side: the IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway head office occupies the second and third floors of the south station building opened on 16 November 2015. JR East Hanawa Line trains, although the line officially terminates at Kōma, run through to Morioka and serve Aoyama.