Kenyoshi Station

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Kenyoshi Station (剣吉駅, Ken'yoshi-eki) is a staffed railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line in Nanbu, Sannohe District, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Aoimori Railway Company. The station is 14.8 kilometers from Metoki Station, the line’s starting point, and 632.1 kilometers from Tokyo. It has two ground-level side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge.

Kenyoshi Station opened on July 1, 1897 as part of the Nippon Railway. When the Nippon Railway was nationalized on November 1, 1906, the station became part of the Tōhoku Main Line under the Japanese Government Railways, and later the Japanese National Railways. Freight operations ended in November 1982. The station has been managed from Hachinohe Station since February 1983. After the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, control passed to JR East. The station came under Aoimori Railway Line management on December 1, 2002. Address: Kenyoshi, Nanbu-machi, Sannohe-gun, Aomori-ken 039-0612, Japan.