Appi-Kogen

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Appi-Kōgen Station traces back to the Ryūgamori signal box opened on 10 November 1926 by Japanese Government Railways in what was then Matsuo Village. After the first signal box was discontinued in August 1952, a provisional Ryūgamori halt opened in January 1957, a second-generation signal box appeared in 1959, and the location became Ryūgamori Station on 28 December 1961 as an unstaffed passenger stop. JR East inherited the station in 1987, and it was renamed Appi-Kōgen on 13 March 1988. The stationmaster post was abolished in December 1998 and the passing loop removed; staff from Ōbuke continued to be dispatched during ski seasons for a few more years. With the contracting-out of Ōbuke on 1 June 2018 the station passed to management by Morioka. Eki-net QR ticket services were introduced on 1 October 2024.

In the early 1970s, during the steam-locomotive boom, rail fans from across Japan gathered near the present-day Appi-Kōgen Station to photograph Class 8620 locomotives in triple-headed haulage; the area was nicknamed "Ryūgamori Ginza".