Karibasawa Station

Karibasawa Station (狩場沢駅) is a railway station in the town of Hiranai in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Lines
Karibasawa Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 83.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 701.1 kilometers from Tokyo.

Station layout
Karibasawa Station has two opposite side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The small station building is unattended.

History
Karibasawa Station was opened on January 4, 1894 as a station on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in February 1962. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010.

Surrounding area

 * Noheji Port