Kanita Station

Kanita Station (蟹田駅, Kanita-eki) is a railway station on the Tsugaru Line in the town of Sotogahama, Aomori, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

[1] Kanita Station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge, serving a total of four tracks (one track is a siding).

The station is attended, and has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.

Services on the Tsugaru Kaikyō Line began on March 13, 1988, and ceased operations on March 26, 2016 when the Hokkaido Shinkansen opened and replaced regular passenger services connecting Aomori and Hakodate.