History
Kakunodate Station opened on 30 July 1921 as a station on the Obonai Railway, which was nationalised the following year and incorporated into the Japanese Government Railways. The Kakunodate Line, which later became the Akita Nairiku Railway, began operating from the station on 1 November 1971. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the JR portion came under JR East. Akita Shinkansen services arrived on 22 March 1997, making this an interchange between JR East's Tazawako Line, the Akita Shinkansen and the third-sector Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway. The current station building, designed to evoke a samurai residence, has been listed among the Top 100 Stations of Tōhoku.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building's exterior was modelled on a traditional samurai residence to echo the preserved buke yashiki district nearby, and the station has been listed in the Top 100 Stations of Tōhoku.