Konakano

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Konakano Station opened on 1 June 1934 and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of the JNR. Staff dispatch from Hon-Hachinohe ended on 10 December 2005, making the station unattended; it is now managed from Hachinohe Station as an elevated stop with a single side platform. The station's name preserves the name of Konakano Town, one of the four municipalities that on 1 May 1929 merged to form Hachinohe City: Hachinohe Town joined with Konakano Town, Minato Town and Same Village to create a city of just over 51,500 residents. Hachinohe is today the second-largest city in Aomori Prefecture by population, a designated core city and the centre of the Nanbu region of eastern Aomori.

Same Station and Konakano Station, both on the Hachinohe Line, take their names from two of the four pre-merger municipalities — Same Village and Konakano Town — that joined with Hachinohe Town and Minato Town on 1 May 1929 to incorporate the city of Hachinohe. They are not neighbours on the line, however: Konakano stands 7.3 rail kilometres from the line's starting point at Hachinohe Station, between Hon-Hachinohe and Mutsu-Minato, while Same is 11.8 kilometres out, between Shirogane and Mutsu-Shirahama.