History
Ōkubo Station opened on 21 October 1902 as a government railway station on the Ōu Main Line in what is now Katagami, Akita Prefecture. The station once handled freight and parcel traffic, both of which ended in the 1980s, and it was destaffed and converted to a simplified-agency station in 1986. With the dissolution of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, it passed to East Japan Railway Company. A reconstructed station building opened on 26 December 2015, replacing the temporary facility used during the rebuild, and from March 2016 all rapid services on the line began stopping here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.