Konakano

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Konakano Station opened on 1 June 1934 as a station of the Japanese National Railways, and passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. Staff dispatch from Hon-Hachinohe ended on 10 December 2005, making the station unattended; it is now managed from Hachinohe Station as an elevated stop with a single side platform. The station's name preserves the name of Konakano Town, one of the four municipalities that on 1 May 1929 merged to form Hachinohe City: Hachinohe Town joined with Konakano Town, Minato Town and Same Village to create a city of just over 51,500 residents. Hachinohe is today the second-largest city in Aomori Prefecture by population, a designated core city and the centre of the Nanbu (southern Aomori) region.

Same Station and Konakano Station, both on the Hachinohe Line, take their names from two of the four pre-merger municipalities — Same Village and Konakano Town — that joined with Hachinohe Town and Minato Town on 1 May 1929 to incorporate the city of Hachinohe. The two stations are only one stop apart on the Hachinohe Line (Hon-Hachinohe → Konakano → Mutsu-Minato).