History
Kurosawa Station opened on 27 November 1921 as a station of the Railway Ministry's Nishi-Yokokuro Light Railway, serving Sannai Village, Hiraka District. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1970 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. With the introduction of CTC on the Kitakami Line on 1 October 1994 the station was made unstaffed and the Kurosawa stationmaster was abolished, the station coming under the Hottoyuda stationmaster. After a branch-administration boundary change on 1 October 1996 it came under the Yokote stationmaster of the Akita Branch. The Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
During the tablet-block era Kurosawa was a staffed station, and was reputed to be the snowiest station in the Morioka Railway Administration's territory (now the Morioka Branch). The waiting room remains open today, but the former staff office portion of the station building is no longer in use.