History
Yanagawa Kibōnomori Kōen-mae Station opened on 1988-07-01 with the conversion of the former Marumori Line into the third-sector Abukuma Express. The station, 20.0 rail kilometres from the line's official starting point at Fukushima, is in Yanagawa-machi Kita-machikashira in the city of Date in Fukushima Prefecture. The station building was completed on 1989-07-01. After the suspension of services caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake on 2011-03-11, the station was destaffed administratively on 2011-04-01, with 2011-03-11 effectively its last day as a staffed station. In 2002 it was named one of the 100 representative stations of the Tōhoku region.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Written out in kana the station name is sixteen characters long, making it the fifth-longest station name in Japan; among railway stations alone it held the top spot until 1990, when Chōjagahama Shiosai Hamanasu Kōen-mae Station opened on the Kashima Rinkai line.