Tairadate

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Tairadate Station opened on 27 August 1922 as a Ministry of Railways station serving the village of Tairadate (平舘村) in Iwate District, simultaneously with the opening of the Hanawa Line section from Kōma to Tairadate. It became unattended in May 1984, joined JR East on 1 April 1987, was rebuilt as a simplified shelter in February 2004, and since 1 June 2018 has been managed from Morioka Station after responsibility for nearby Ōbuke Station was outsourced. Although the address district is written 平舘, the station name itself uses the joyō-kanji form 平館. The station is in Hachimantai City, formed on 1 September 2005 by the merger of Nishine Town, Matsuo Village and Ashiro Town in Iwate District; the new city takes its name from Mt. Hachimantai on its western edge. Tairadate is in the Nishine area, the city's southeastern gateway and the only part of Hachimantai to share a border with Morioka City.

In Hachimantai City, settlement in the Nishine area is unusually dense around Ōbuke Station and along the old national road running past the site of the former Tairadate village office as far as Tairadate Station, in a city that is otherwise a scatter of small hamlets. Hachimantai City is also the point where the Hachinohe Expressway branches from the Tōhoku Expressway at Ashiro JCT, making it a key transport junction.