Station

Hiraka

平賀

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Hiraka
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:08 / 21:57

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)


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

Timetable data as of 26 April 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Hiraka Station opened on 7 September 1927 on the Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line. In 2002 it was selected for the "100 Stations of Tōhoku" list, and the present-day station is the operational and dispatch headquarters of the Kōnan Line, sharing its building with the Kōnan Railway head office and the Tsugaru-Mirai agricultural cooperative. The station sits in Hirakawa City, formed on 1 January 2006 by the merger of Onoue Town, Hiraka Town and Ikarigaseki Village in former Minami-Tsugaru District. The new city takes its name from the Hira River, a tributary of the Iwaki River that runs through the three former municipalities; Hiraka Station is listed as the city's central railway hub.

Notes

The planned but failed Heisei-era merger talks had originally aimed at twelve municipalities (including Hirosaki and Kuroishi cities) coming together as a new "Hirosaki City"; when those talks collapsed over the choice of city name, merger formula and council seats, only Onoue, Hiraka and Ikarigaseki proceeded as a separate city, leaving Hirakawa's former Ikarigaseki area as a de-facto exclave separated from the rest by impassable mountain terrain.

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