History
Warabi Station opened on 16 July 1893 as a Nippon Railway stop. Nationalisation under the Railway Nationalisation Act came on 1 November 1906, and the line was designated part of the Tohoku Main Line on 12 October 1909. The current station building dates to 17 October 1967, with the west entrance and a footbridge to the platform added in 1933 and the east entrance opened on 15 September 1949. Freight ended on 1 February 1984 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. JR East inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica use began on 18 November 2001, smart platform doors entered service on 29 February 2020, and Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 31 August 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After Warabi-tai Station on the Hakodate Main Line closed in March 2017, Warabi became the last JR station alphabetically by Japanese kana order.