History
Iizume Station opened on 15 June 1905 as a Japanese Government Railways station in Iizume village, on what is now the Ōu Main Line 239.8 rail kilometres from Fukushima. It passed through JNR to JR East at the privatisation of 1 April 1987 and currently lies in Misato, Akita Prefecture. Parcel service ended on 10 February 1983, when the station became unstaffed under a simplified-contract arrangement. The platform island was reduced from two faces to a single line in November 2025, ending the station's long-running role as a meeting point for trains. Rapid services have stopped here since 26 March 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Iizume sits roughly midway between the former post town of Rokugō on the Ushū Kaidō and the rivertrade hub of Kakumagawa, and its construction reportedly required substantial earthworks because the site was originally a wetland.