History
Niida Station opened on 1 July 1988 on the Abukuma Express Line in Date, Fukushima Prefecture. Located 15.4 km from the Fukushima terminus, it serves a suburban agricultural district where rice paddies dominate the surrounding landscape. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing and no station building, and is unattended. Daily boarding traffic is light; in fiscal 2015 it averaged 38 passengers a day. The town promotes the area with the slogan “village of strawberries and fruit,” reflecting the surrounding farms rather than any major civic centre. Niida sits between Ōizumi and Shinden on the line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Niida shares its Japanese pronunciation with several long-vanished stations – the Niida on the now-defunct Niigata Kotsu electric line closed in 1993 and Niita on the Chikuho coal line shut in 1969.