Station

Hachimantai

八幡平

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Hachimantai
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Hachimantai Station opened on 17 October 1931 as Azukisawa Station on the privately built Akita Railway, serving the village of Miyakawa in Kazuno District, Akita. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1934 and folded into the Japanese Government Railways, later JNR. The station took its present name on 1 April 1957, following the 1956 merger that formed the new village of Hachimantai. It became unstaffed on 15 November 1982 and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the privatisation of JNR. A modern building modelled on the hall of the nearby Ōhirumemuchi Shrine replaced the earlier one in March 2015 at one-fifth the former structure's size.

Notes

The 2015 replacement station building is roughly one-fifth the size of its predecessor and was modelled on the shrine hall of the nearby Ōhirumemuchi Shrine.

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