History
Abukuma Station opened on 1988-07-01 with the conversion of the former Japanese National Railways Marumori Line into the third-sector Abukuma Express, and sits 29.4 rail kilometres from the line's official starting point at Fukushima. The station, the southernmost in Miyagi Prefecture, was built deliberately remote from any settlement to anchor a riverside tourist stop on the Abukuma River. Its distinctive octagonal building doubles as a ticket office for the adjacent Abukuma Line riverboat pier, where sightseeing cruises run between April and November. The station is unstaffed and has a single side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station has no village around it: it was sited to anchor the Abukuma River sightseeing-boat pier, and in 2002 was named one of the 100 representative stations of the Tōhoku region.