History
Hanamaki-Kūkō Station opened on 15 July 1922 as Nimaibashi Signal Box, was upgraded to a full station on 20 November 1932 as Nimaibashi Station and renamed Hanamaki-Kūkō (Hanamaki Airport) on 13 March 1988. Parcel service ended in March 1985, and with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station came under JR East and JR Freight. Scheduled freight services ceased in March 1997, and the station became operationally outsourced in April 2004. Suica IC card service began on 27 May 2023, and on 16 March 2024 the station became permanently unstaffed. The station is several kilometres from the airport terminal, but a direct express bus from Morioka has stopped here since 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite its name, the station sits about 3.8 km from the airport terminal building, so the station serves the airport only indirectly via a direct bus from Morioka that began calling in 2013.