| Misawa Station | |
| Native Name: | 三沢駅 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Type: | Regional rail station |
| Address: | Inuotose Furumagi 51-7, Misawa-shi, Aomori-ken 033-0000 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 40.6688°N 141.3536°W |
| Operator: | Aoimori Railway |
| Line: | Aoimori Railway Line |
| Platforms: | 1 side + 1 island platforms |
| Distance: | 46.9 km from |
| Connections: | Bus |
| Structure: | Elevated |
| Status: | Staffed |
| Opened: | 1 September 1894 |
| Former: | Furumaki (until 1961) |
| Map Type: | Japan Aomori Prefecture#Japan |
is a railway station and major stop along the Aoimori Railway Line in the city of Misawa in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.
Misawa Station is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line,[1] and is 46.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is 664.2 kilometers from Tokyo Station.
Misawa Station has one ground-level island platform and one ground-level side platform serving three tracks with an elevated station building built over the tracks. The station is staffed The station building has a ticket office, as well as automatic ticket machines.
Misawa Station was opened on 1 April 1896 as the on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR), when the Nippon Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1906. On 4 September 1922 it became a joint station, when the Towada Railway (present-day Towada Kankō Electric Railway, also known as Tōtetsu) connected Furumaki with Towadashi Station. The Tōtetsu Furumaki Station was relocated 120 meters away on 1 October 1926 and a new station building was completed on 1 January 1959. The Tōtetsu station was renamed Misawa Station on 1 March 1961 and the JNR station followed on 20 March of the same year. With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, the JNR Misawa Station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). Freight services were discontinued in June 2006. The control of the Tōhoku Main Line (between Hachinohe and Aomori) was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended to . On 1 April 2012 Towada Kankō Electric Railway discontinued its railway business.[2] The station building was expanded following the opening of a plaza extension on 4 April 2020.[3]
Until the operational change in 2010, the JR station was served by the limited express trains Tsugaru, Hakuchō and Super Hakuchō. As of January 2021, the only JR East limited express train to stop at Misawa Station is the Resort Asunaro sightseeing train that runs between and stations.[4]