Koikawa (Akita)

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Koikawa Station began life on 30 September 1944 as the Koikawa Signal Stop (鯉川信号場) under Japanese National Railways and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 February 1950, serving what was then the town of Kado in Akita Prefecture. The station became unstaffed in October 1971, and in 1982 a small replacement structure built from a converted shipping container took over from the original building. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 placed the station under JR East, which completed a new station building in July 2007. Management of the stop was transferred from Hachirōgata to Tsuchizaki in April 2010 and then to Higashi-Noshiro in October 2015.

For roughly 25 years from 1982 the station building was a repurposed shipping container — a stop-gap measure between the original wooden structure and the present 2007 building.