History
Funaoka Station opened on 25 February 1929. Freight handling ended on 20 September 1980 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. A Midori no Madoguchi reserved-ticket counter was installed on 24 December 1986, and the station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. A new station building combined with a community plaza was completed on 4 August 1990. Automatic ticket gates were introduced on 26 June 2003 and Suica IC card service began on 26 October 2003. On 1 October 2014 operations were outsourced, the Funaoka stationmaster role was abolished and management passed to Iwanuma Station. The Midori no Madoguchi counter closed on 31 March 2023, and the Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Funaoka Station was selected among the "100 Best Stations of Tōhoku" in 2002 for being "built modelled on Funaoka Castle, the residence of Harada Kai, central figure of the Date Disturbance". The castle site is now Funaoka-jōshi Park, also famous as the setting of Shūgorō Yamamoto's novel "The Fir Tree Remained", and is among the 100 Best Cherry-Blossom Spots in Japan together with the "Hitome Senbon-zakura" line of cherry trees along the Shiroishi River.