History
Namioka Station opened on December 1, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, in the former village of Namioka, on what became the Ōu Main Line 462.1 kilometres north of Fukushima. Operational control passed to JR East with the April 1, 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. A new station building, integrated with the local community centre "Apinesu," opened to rail use on November 8, 2009 and to the wider community space on April 25, 2010. The station's former tsugaru limited-express stop status was dropped on December 4, 2010 with the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension to Shin-Aomori, then restored on March 17, 2018. Suica became usable here on May 27, 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.