Aozasa Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 青笹駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Aozasachō, Aozasa 21, Tōno-shi, Iwate-ken 028-0503 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Kamaishi Line |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 1 |
Distance: | 50.3 km from |
Structure: | At grade |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | 1 September 1915 |
Map Type: | Japan Iwate Prefecture#Japan |
is a railway station in the city of Tōno, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Aozasa Station is served by the Kamaishi Line; it is located 50.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hanamaki Station.
The station has one side platform, serving a single bi-directional track. There is no station building, but there is a brick weather shelter, located across the road parallel to the platform. The station is unattended.
Aozasa Station opened on 1 September 1915 on the, a light railway extending 65.4 km from to the now-defunct .[1] The line was nationalized in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi Line. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.