Station

Detohama

出戸浜

Detohama
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Detohama Station began as the Deto Temporary Boarding Station (出戸仮乗降場) on 25 July 1950, serving the village of Tennō in Akita Prefecture, and was upgraded to a full Japanese National Railways (JNR) stop on the Oga Line as Detohama Station on 25 December 1951. Parcel handling ended and the station became unstaffed on 1 October 1970. JNR privatisation transferred operations to JR East on 1 April 1987. In June 1985 the old building was demolished and replaced by a converted freight-wagon shelter, which itself gave way to a new station building completed in February 2006. Management responsibility moved from Oiwake to Tsuchizaki on 1 April 2010, and Suica acceptance began on 27 May 2023.

Notes

For two decades from 1985 the station building was a re-purposed freight wagon — a low-cost stop-gap measure between the original wooden structure and the present 2006 building.

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