Kawabe Station (Aomori)

Kawabe Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is 453.4 kilometers from the southern terminus of the line at Fukushima. It is also the northern terminal station for the Gonō Line.

Kawabe Station has two ground level island platforms, serving three tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has been unstaffed since March 18, 2023. A fourth track has not been in use since April 1, 1998 with the discontinuation of the Kuroishi Line.

Kawabe Station opened on December 1, 1894, as a station on the Japanese Government Railways, the predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on the Ōu Northern Line. From August 15, 1912, a spur line opened to Kuroishi, and from September 25, 1918, the Mutsu Railway (present-day Gonō Line) began operations from Kawabe Station. On November 1, 1984, operations on the Kuroishi Line were transferred from JNR to the Konan Railway. All freight operations were discontinued from April 1987. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. The Kuroishi Line ceased operations from April 1, 1998.^{[citation needed]}

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 285 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

• Kawabe-Izumi Post office

Kōnan Bus services for Kuroishi Station via Maeda-Yashiki.^{[citation needed]}