History
Higashi-Kanazawa Station began life on 1925-08-01 as the Kosaka signal station between Kanazawa and Morimoto on the state-owned Hokuriku Main Line. It was upgraded to a station on 1933-08-01, taking the name Higashi-Kanazawa and opening as a general station. Freight handling ended on 1974-10-01, leaving it a passenger-only station, and it passed to JR West at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. On 2002-10-21, to make space for Hokuriku Shinkansen construction, the station was moved about 200 m to the north and rebuilt as an elevated structure. JR Freight's Kanazawa Freight Terminal opened on 2003-06-12. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Kanazawa on 2015-03-14, the station was transferred to IR Ishikawa Railway, and on 2024-03-16 it became unstaffed at all hours.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 11 March 1989 until 15 March 1991 JR West operated a check-out service for the Kanazawa-bound sleeper limited express Hokuriku here, letting passengers leave bedding at Higashi-Kanazawa rather than ride into the city.