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Ushirogata Station is a railway station on the JR East Tsugaru Line located in the city of Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is 14.7 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Tsugaru Line at Aomori Station.HistoryUshirogata Station was opened on December 5, 1951 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Scheduled freight operations were discontinued from October 1968. On April 1, 1970, it became a kan'i itaku station, operated by the Japan Travel Bureau. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. It has been unattended since September 2009.LinesEast Japan Railway CompanyTsugaru LineStation layoutUshirogata Station has a single side platform serving bi-directional traffic. The platforms are short, necessitating the use of a door cut system for trains longer than 5 carriages long. The station is unattended, and is managed from Aomori Station. The station building is unattended.