Noheji Station

Noheji Station is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line,{{cite web| title=Aoimori Railway Line Route and Fares | url=http://www.aoimorirailway.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/12796f2058fa8c2008911730f88135e5.pdf|date=September 2019|accessdate=19 February 2020}} and is {{convert|44.6|km|mi|sp=us}} from the northern terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is also the southern terminus of the 58.4 kilometer Ōminato Line.

Noheji Station has a single ground-level side platform and two ground-level island platforms serving five tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station building has a staffed ticket office, as well as an automatic ticket machine.

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Noheiji Station was opened on 1 September 1891 as a station of the Nippon Railway. It was nationalized on 1 July 1906 and became a station of the Japanese Government Railways Tōhoku Main Line. On 20 March 1921, it became the southern terminus of the Ōminato Line. After the end of World War II, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR).{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

On 15 March 1954 an F-84 Thunderjet from nearby Misawa Air Base crashed on top of Noheji Station, destroying the station building and killing twelve people. The explosion left a crater three meters wide and two meters deep, and set fire to one of the carriages of the Tōhoku Main Line. Platforms 1 through 3 were also destroyed. The pilot ejected, but his parachute failed to open and he was also killed.{{cite web | url=http://www.asyura2.com/12/warb9/msg/630.html | title=６０メートル低空飛行訓練も オスプレイで米軍＜共同通信＞ 地には平和を }}

From 5 August 1968, the Nanbu Jūkan Railway began operations from Noheji (operations ended in 1997). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. The control of the Tōhoku Main Line (between {{STN|Hachinohe|x}} and Aomori) was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to {{STN|Shin-Aomori|x}}.

The station is primarily served by trains operating on Aomori–Hachinohe and Noheji–Ōminato local services. It is served by two rapid express trains, the Shimokita service operated jointly by JR East and the Aoimori Railway between Hachinohe and Ōminato stations, and the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and {{STN|Morioka|x}}. Passenger trains serve Noheji Station just under 17 hours a day from 6:24{{nbsp}}am to 11:06{{nbsp}}pm. At peak hours between the first train and 9:04{{nbsp}}am trains depart from the station roughly every 30 minutes; otherwise trains depart at an approximate hourly basis.{{cite web|title=青い森鉄道列車時刻表|trans-title=Aoimori Railway Train Timetable|url=http://aoimorirailway.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/229f5007e41ab2a56a1f29e49260b470.pdf|publisher=Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd|language=ja|date=25 February 2021|accessdate=17 March 2021}}

• Enburi; For Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station{{Cite web|title = えんぶり号 - 弘南バス株式会社|url = http://www.konanbus.com/highway/enburi.html|website = www.konanbus.com|access-date = 2016-02-07}}

In 2018, the station was used by a daily average of 294 passengers daily riding on the Ōminato Line.{{cite web |url= http://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/2018_07.html|script-title=ja: 各駅の乗車人員 (2018年度)|trans-title=Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2018)|year= 2019|publisher= East Japan Railway Company|location= Japan|language= Japanese|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 21 April 2020}} In the same year, the Aoimori Railway Line saw an average daily ridership of 2,068 passengers, making it the second busiest station along the line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations.{{cite web|title=野辺地駅（青い森鉄道）の乗降客数の統計|trans-title=Passenger statistics of Noheji Station|url=http://statresearch.jp/traffic/train/stations/passengers_station_99_15.html|website=statresearch|language=ja|date=2021|access-date=30 April 2021}} The total number of passengers utilizing the station between the two lines in 2018 was 2,362, an increase from the 2010 daily average of 673 passengers when the station was still fully operated by JR East.{{cite web|title=各駅の乗車人員|trans-title=Passengers at each station|url=https://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/2010_04.html|language=ja|publisher=JR East|date=2010|access-date=30 April 2021}}

In fiscal 2022, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 202 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).{{cite web |url= https://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/2022_07.html|script-title=ja: 各駅の乗車人員 (2022年度)|trans-title=Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2022)|year= 2023|publisher= East Japan Railway Company|location= Japan|language= Japanese|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 21 April 2024}} The Aomori Railway portion of the station was used by 1486 passengers daily in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pref.aomori.lg.jp/soshiki/kikaku/aotetsu/files/2019torikumihoukokusho.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327101934/https://www.pref.aomori.lg.jp/soshiki/kikaku/aotetsu/files/2019torikumihoukokusho.pdf|title=移動等円滑化取組報告書（鉄道駅）（令和元年度）|archivedate=March 27, 2021|page=3|accessdate=July 10, 2021|publisher=青森県|format=PDF|language=ja}}

• Noheji Public Hospital
• Noheji Town Chamber of Commerce Women's Division Kitchen (former "Matsuura Shokudo"), a restaurant that opened almost at the same time as the opening of Noheji Station in 1891. In the 2000s, it offered a "cha-gayu set meal" by reservation, which was a reproduction of "cha-gayu," a dish considered to be part of Noheji Town's merchant culture.
• Aomori Prefectural Noheji High School
• {{jct|country=JPN|Route|279}}

• List of railway stations in Japan

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• [http://aoimorirailway.com/eki/11noheji.html Noheji Station (Aoimori Railway)] {{in lang|ja}}
• [http://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/station/info.aspx?StationCd=1210 Noheji Station (JR East)] {{in lang|ja}}

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