is a railway station located in the town of Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture,

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Mutsu-Sawabe Station is a station on the Gonō Line, and is located 39.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .

Station layout

Mutsu-Sawabe Station has one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended, and is managed from Fukaura Station. The station building is of identical design to that of and .

History

Mutsu-Sawabe Station was opened on July 30, 1932 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR). With the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (successor of JGR) on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.

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