History
Aozasa Station opened on 1 September 1915 on the Iwate Light Railway, a 762 mm narrow-gauge line running 65.4 km between Hanamaki and the now-defunct Sennintōge Station. The Iwate Light Railway was nationalised in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi Line, and the station was absorbed into the JR East network at the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. There is no station building; a brick weather shelter sits across the road parallel to the single side platform, which serves traffic in both directions, and the station is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform and the brick weather shelter sit on opposite sides of a public road that runs between them, and the station's Esperanto nickname "Kapao" (kappa) references the Tōno valley's river-imp folklore.