History
Maesawa Station opened on 1 November 1890 as a station on what became the Tōhoku Main Line, in what is now Ōshū, Iwate. It was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in 2005, with an elevated structure and a footbridge connecting one side platform and one island platform. The station carries a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. In fiscal 2018 it averaged 507 boarding passengers per day. The station sits 459.9 kilometres along the line from the official Tokyo Station origin.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Maesawa is the home station for Maesawa High School.