History
Michikawa Station opened on 22 February 1920 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Rikuusai Line, serving the village of Michikawa in Yuri District, Akita Prefecture. It was reassigned to the Uetsu Main Line on 20 April 1924. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1971, parcel service in December 1972, when the station became unstaffed and was switched to a simplified franchise; the station building hosted an Iwaki-town chamber-of-commerce shop "Station Market" from December 1973. JNR's 1987 privatisation transferred it to JR East. The present station building was rebuilt in December 2000, and the franchise has since lapsed, leaving the stop fully unstaffed under Ugo-Honjō management.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
From December 1973 the station building housed a chamber-of-commerce-run convenience shop called "Station Market" — a community-revenue scheme common in rural Akita during the simplified-franchise era — though the shop has since closed.