Hiraka

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:08 / 21:57

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line: Hakunōkōkōmae ⇄ Tachita

Hiraka Station opened on 7 September 1927 on the Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line. In 2002 it was selected for the "100 Stations of Tōhoku" list, and the present-day station is the operational and dispatch headquarters of the Kōnan Line, sharing its building with the Kōnan Railway head office and the Tsugaru-Mirai agricultural cooperative. The station sits in Hirakawa City, formed on 1 January 2006 by the merger of Onoue Town, Hiraka Town and Ikarigaseki Village in former Minami-Tsugaru District. The new city takes its name from the Hira River, a tributary of the Iwaki River that runs through the three former municipalities; the Hirakawa article explicitly designates Hiraka Station as the city's central railway hub.

According to the Hirakawa City article, the planned but failed Heisei-era merger talks had originally aimed at twelve municipalities (including Hirosaki and Kuroishi cities) coming together as a new "Hirosaki City"; when those talks collapsed over the choice of city name, merger formula and council seats, only Onoue, Hiraka and Ikarigaseki proceeded as a separate city, leaving Hirakawa's former Ikarigaseki area as a de-facto exclave separated from the rest by impassable mountain terrain.