Higashi-Aomori

Weekday departures: 50/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:49 / 23:45

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 11 May 2026.

• Aoimori Railway Line: Koyanagi ⇄ Tsutsui (Aomori)

Higashi-Aomori Station opened on 21 July 1968 as a Japanese National Railways stop when the Tōhoku Main Line was rerouted south of central Aomori, replacing Namiuchi Station on the abandoned alignment. Originally planned as a freight-only depot, it became a general station after local residents petitioned for passenger service. Small-parcel handling ran from 1974 to 1978, and the station was destaffed for passenger duties in 1986. JR privatisation on 1 April 1987 split operations between JR East and JR Freight, and on 4 December 2010 passenger services transferred to Aoimori Railway with the Tōhoku Shinkansen's extension to Shin-Aomori. JR Freight began handling JR-standard 30-foot and ISO 20-foot containers from March 2008, with LNG tank-container traffic also commencing from March 2008.

On 19 January 1998 four workers clearing snow in the station yard were struck by a moving train and killed. Later the same year the north-south free passage known as Tōryanse-bashi opened and the old footbridge was taken out of use.