Nishi-Hiranai Station


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

Lines

Nishi-Hiranai Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 98.3 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 715.6 kilometers from.

Station layout

Nishi-Hiranai Station has two unnumbered opposed side platforms, connected the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Nishi-Hiranai Station was opened on October 1, 1939 as a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways, the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in November 1961. The station has been unattended since August 1970. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company.
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010.

Bus services