Noheji Station 野辺地駅
Regional rail station
Noheji Station in March 2021
General information
Location	49-2 Kamikonakano, Noheji, Kamikita District, Aomori Prefecture 039-3154 Japan
Coordinates	40°51′18.54″N 141°07′10.60″E / 40.8551500°N 141.1196111°E / 40.8551500; 141.1196111
Operated by	JR East Aoimori Railway
Line(s)	■ Ōminato Line ■ Aoimori Railway Line
Distance	44.6 km from Aomori
Platforms	1 side + 2 island platforms
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	Staffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	1 September 1891 (1891-09-01)
Passengers
FY2018	294 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station through to Aoimori Railway Shimokita Mutsu-Yokohama towards Ōminato Terminus Ōminato Line Kita-Noheji towards Ōminato Preceding station Aoimori Railway Following station Ottomo (limited service) towards Hachinohe Shimokita through to JR East Chibiki towards Metoki Aoimori Railway Line Karibasawa towards Aomori
Location
Noheji Station Location within Aomori Prefecture Show map of Aomori Prefecture Noheji Station Noheji Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Noheji Station (野辺地駅, Noheji-eki) is a railway station located in the central district of the town of Noheji in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The station has been operating since 1891. Since 2010, the station has been jointly operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Aoimori Railway Company, a third sector, regional rail operator. The station is the southern terminus of JR East's Ōminato Line and was formerly the northern terminus of the Nanbu Jūkan Railway.

Location

Noheji Station is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line,^[1] and is 44.6 kilometers (27.7 mi) from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is also the southern terminus of the Ōminato Line.

• National Route 4
• National Route 279
• Aomori Prefectural Noheji High School

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 staffed ticket office, as well as an automatic ticket machine.

Platforms

History

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 (JNR).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]

From 5 August 1968, the Nanbu Jūkan Railway began operations from Noheji (operations ended in 1997). 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 (between Hachinohe and Aomori) was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to Shin-Aomori.

Services

The station is primarily served by trains operating on Aomori–Hachinohe and Noheji–Ōminato local services. It is served by two rapid express trains, the Shimokita service operated jointly by JR East and the Aoimori Railway between Hachinohe and Ōminato stations, and the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and Morioka. Passenger trains serve Noheji Station just under 17 hours a day from 6:24 am to 11:06 pm. At peak hours between the first train and 9:04 am trains depart from the station roughly every 30 minutes; otherwise trains depart at an approximate hourly basis.^[3]

In 2018, the station was used by a daily average of 294 passengers daily riding on the Ōminato Line.^[4] In the same year, the Aoimori Railway Line saw an average daily ridership of 2,068 passengers, making it the second busiest station along the line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations.^[5] The total number of passengers utilizing the station between the two lines in 2018 was 2,362, an increase from the 2010 daily average of 673 passengers when the station was still fully operated by JR East.^[6]

Bus services

• Enburi; For Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station^[7]