[1] The station is situated within the urban core of central Aomori[2] and is in close proximity to the city hall, prefectural hall, the city library, and several landmarks and museums including the Aomori Bay Bridge, A-Factory, and Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse.

The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office, a convenience store, and a View Plaza travel agency.

[6][7] Tickets can also be purchased at two separate automatic dispensers for JR East and the Aoimori Railway Company.

[10] The station and its adjacent port facilities were destroyed during strategic bombing of Aomori in World War II on 28 July 1945.

[12] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

[26] Aomori Station is the setting for the 1977 enka song by Sayuri Ishikawa "Tsugaru Kaikyō Fuyugeshiki".

The song is about a young woman who has left a lover behind in Tokyo and is thinking back on them as she disembarks from a train at the station and prepares to board a ferry boat to Hokkaido.