History
Kakuda Station opened on 1 April 1968 as a passenger-only station of the Japanese National Railways, with a single side platform. On 1 July 1986 the line was transferred to the third-sector Abukuma Express, and a passing loop and second platform were added. A pedestrian footbridge was completed in July 1996, and the present two-storey station building, named "Oak Plaza", entered service in April 1998 as the centrepiece of a city-led station-area redevelopment.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kakuda Station was selected as one of the Tōhoku Top 100 Stations in 2002 under the slogan "a futuristically-shaped station in a town reaching for space" — Kakuda hosts a JAXA propulsion-research site. The station is also the busiest non-terminus station on the Abukuma Express, with over 1,000 boardings on peak measurement days.