Kominato Station


Kominato Station is a railway station in the town of Hiranai, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector passenger railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Lines

Kominato Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 27.4 kilometers from the northern terminus of the line, Aomori Station, and 94.5 kilometers from the southern terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 711.8 kilometers from along the original Tōhoku Main Line.

Station layout

Kominato Station has an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks, connected the station building by a footbridge. However, only tracks 1 and 3 are in use, and the rails for track 2 are used only as a siding, giving the station an effective structure of two opposed side platforms. The station building is attended, and has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Kominato Station was opened on September 1, 1891 as a station on the Nippon Railway in the former town, Kominato. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways, the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways, after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in February 1962.
The station was considered to be closed in March 1972 due to financial difficulties for JNR, but the people of Hiranai successfully protested the motion to close the station.
With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company. From April 1, 2004 it had been operated by Jaster Co., Ltd., with ticketing window for ordinary tickets, express tickets, and reserved-seat tickets for all JR lines.
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010. Under the management of the regional railway, it was renovated most recently in the summer of 2018.

Bus services