History
Tomino Station opened on 1988-07-01 with the conversion of the former Marumori Line into the third-sector Abukuma Express, and sits 22.1 rail kilometres from the line's official starting point at Fukushima. The station, in Yanagawa-machi Funyū in the city of Date, Fukushima Prefecture, has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing and no station building. It is unstaffed. The track layout allows down trains to enter the up main, so many Fukushima-bound services use Tomino as a turnaround; trains without a follow-on duty are deadheaded back to the depot at Yanagawa rather than stabled overnight here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tomino's track layout was built to support turnarounds, but because no overnight stabling is available, any non-revenue trains finishing their day here are ferried empty back to the Yanagawa depot.