History
The station opened on 15 December 1925 as Wakura Station, the temporary terminus of the Ministry of Railways' Nanao Line extension from Nanao. It served the famous Wakura Onsen hot-spring resort on the Noto peninsula. Renamed Wakuraonsen on 1 July 1980, it received a new station building the same month. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. On 1 September 1991 the line was electrified as far as Wakuraonsen and the non-electrified section to Wajima was transferred to the third-sector Noto Railway, making the station a jointly-used boundary point. The 2024 Noto earthquake cracked the platforms and briefly suspended service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Wakuraonsen is JR West's northernmost station and the easternmost in its central-Japan network; the boarding melody is a local folk tune, the "Wakura Ondo".