Noheji Station


Noheji Station is a junction railway station in the town of Noheji, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, jointly operated by the East Japan Railway Company and the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Lines

Noheji Station is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is also the terminal station for the Ōminato Line.

Station layout

Noheji Station has a single ground-level side platform and two ground-level island platforms serving five tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station building has a manned ticket office, as well as an automatic ticket machine.

Platforms

Bus terminal

Highway buses

Noheiji Station was opened on 1 September 1891 as a station of the Nippon Railway. It was nationalized on 1 July 1906 and became a station of the Japanese Government Railways Tōhoku Main Line. On 20 March 1921, it became the southern terminus of the Ōminato Line. After the end of World War II, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways.
On 15 March 1954 an 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 three 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 5 August 1968, the Nanbu Jūkan Railway began operations from Noheji. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. The control of the Tōhoku Main Line was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 294 passengers daily.

Surrounding area