page_title: Kominato Station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kominato Station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kominato Station in 1947 日本語: 昭和２２～２３年頃の小湊駅
context_page_description: Kominato Station is a railway station in the town of Hiranai, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector passenger railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.
context_section_description: Kominato Station was opened on September 1, 1891 as a station on the Nippon Railway in the former town, Kominato. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in February 1962.
  The station was considered to be closed in March 1972 due to financial difficulties for JNR, but the people of Hiranai successfully protested the motion to close the station.
  With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). From April 1, 2004 it had been operated by Jaster Co., Ltd., with ticketing window for ordinary tickets, express tickets, and reserved-seat tickets for all JR lines.
  The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010. Under the management of the regional railway, it was renovated most recently in the summer of 2018.
caption: Kominato Station in 1947
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