History
Jindai Station opened on 11 December 1921 as the terminus of the Railway Ministry's Obonai Light Railway when it was extended from Kakunodate. Following a renaming on 2 September 1922 it became a station of the Obonai Line, and on 31 August 1923 it became an intermediate station when the line was extended to Obonai (now Tazawako). On 20 October 1966 the Obonai Line was absorbed into the Tazawako Line. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1970 and parcel handling on 25 December 1981, when the station was made unstaffed; in 1982 the station building was rebuilt out of a converted shipping container. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. The container building was replaced in 2007. On 1 October 2020 management was transferred to Ōmagari Station, and the Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 2 November 2024 the Aramachi neighbourhood association (74 households) received the Medal with Green Ribbon from the government for 47 years of environmental work at Jindai Station — including cleaning the station — that had begun in 1977. Akita Shinkansen trains pass through on track 2, which is also the main running line for one-track-through operation.