Noheji Station

Noheji Station 野辺地駅
Noheji Station
Location
Prefecture	Aomori (See other stations in Aomori)
District	Kamikita
Town	Noheji
Neighborhood etc.	Kamikonakano 49-2
Postal code	039-3131
(in Japanese)	青森県上北郡野辺地町字上小中野49-2
History
Year opened	1891
Rail services
Operator(s)	Aoimori Railway JR East
Line(s)	Aoimori Railway Line Ōminato Line

Noheji Station (野辺地駅, Noheji-eki) is a joint railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line of Aoimori Railway Company and Ōminato Line of JR East located in the town of Noheji, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is the southern terminus of the Ōminato Line, and is located 44.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Aoimori Railway Line at Aomori Station.

History

Noheiji Station was opened on September 1, 1891 as a station of the Nippon Railway. It was nationalized on July 1, 1906 and became a station of the Japanese Government Railways's Tōhoku Main Line. On March 20, 1921, it became the southern terminus of the Ōminato Line. After the end of World War II, the JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR).

On March 15, 1954 a F-84 Thunderjet from nearby Misawa Air Base crashed on top of Noheji Station, destroying the station building and killing twelve people. The explosion left a crater thee meters wide and two meters deep, and set fire to one of the carriages of the Tōhoku Main Line. Platforms 1 through 3 were also destroyed. The pilot ejected, but his parachute failed to open and he was also killed.

From August 5, 1968, the Nanbu Jūkan Railway began operations from Noheji (operations ended in 1997). With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. The control of the Tōhoku Main Line (between Hachinohe and Aomori) was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to Shin-Aomori.

Lines

• Aoimori Railway
  • Aoimori Railway Line
• East Japan Railway Company
  • Ōminato Line

Station layout

Noheji Station has a single side platform and two island platforms serving five tracks. The station building has a manned ticketing window, as well as an automatic ticket machine.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

See also

• List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

• JTB Timetable December 2010 issue

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Noheji Station.

• Noheji Station (Aoimori Railway) (Japanese)
• Noheji Station (JR East) (Japanese)

Coordinates: 40°51′18.54″N 141°07′10.60″E / 40.8551500°N 141.1196111°E / 40.8551500; 141.1196111