Metoki

Weekday departures: 20/day · Sat & holiday departures: 20/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:36 / 23:25

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Iwate Galaxy Railway Line: Kintaichi-Onsen
• Aoimori Railway Line: Sannohe

Metoki Station opened on 20 December 1924 as the Metoki Signal Stop on the Tōhoku Main Line under Japan National Railways (JNR), in the town of Sannohe in Aomori Prefecture. It was upgraded to a full passenger and freight station on 1 October 1948. Freight operations ended in April 1962, and following the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East). On 1 December 2002, when the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to Hachinohe, Metoki became a jointly operated station of the third-sector Aoimori Railway Company and the Iwate Galaxy Railway Company; it is the boundary station between the two lines and is the only Aomori-prefecture station on the Iwate Galaxy line.

Metoki is the only station of the Iwate Galaxy Railway Company located outside Iwate Prefecture — it sits in Sannohe, Aomori, just north of the Mabechi River which forms the prefectural boundary.