[1] The total area of the town is 83.89 square kilometres (32.39 sq mi) Rokunohe is in east-central Aomori Prefecture, in relatively flat lands.

The Oirase River, which originates from Lake Towada, flows through the southern part of the town from east to west.

Rokunohe began as one of a series of fortified settlements established by the Nanbu clan in the early Kamakura period to control their new territories in Nukada District of northern Ōshū, although the area never developed into an independent village.

During the post-Meiji restoration establishment of the modern municipalities system on 1 April 1889, Rokunohe Village was proclaimed from the merger of seven small hamlets.

The town has one public high school operated by the Aomori Prefectural Board of Education.