History
Jingūji Station opened on 21 August 1904 as a Japanese Government Railways station serving the town of Kamioka in what is now Daisen, Akita Prefecture. It became part of Japanese National Railways after the Second World War and passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station sits 253.0 rail kilometres along the Ōu Main Line from Fukushima and features a dual-gauge platform used by through Akita Shinkansen services. A jointly funded replacement station building, shared with Daisen city facilities, opened on 21 July 2008 after a roughly two-month rebuild.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Platform 1 is a three-rail dual-gauge track shared by Akita Shinkansen down services and conventional trains, while Akita Shinkansen non-stop services use a separate standard-gauge through line with no platform.