Operated by JR East | Opened 1958 | |
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Similar Okutsugaru‑Imabetsu Station, Minmaya Station, Tsugaru‑Hamana Station, Ōkawadai Station, Naka‑Oguni Station | ||
Tsugaru-Futamata Station (津軽二股駅, Tsugaru-Futamata-eki) is a railway station on the JR East Tsugaru Line located in the town of Imabetsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is 46.6 rail kilometres from the southern terminus of the Tsugaru Line at Aomori Station.
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History
Tsugaru-Futamata Station was opened on October 21, 1958 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Scheduled freight operations were discontinued from October 20, 1968. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.
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Station layout
Tsugaru-Futamata Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The unattended station building is managed from Kanita Station. The station building also doubles as Michi-no-eki Imabetsu serving vehicular traffic.
Surrounding area
The station is connected to the Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station of the Hokkaido Shinkansen (which runs immediately adjacent and parallel to Tsugaru-Futamata) by a stairway. Prior to the opening of Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station, there was Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station on the Kaikyō Line at the same location.