History
Hobara Station opened on 1 July 1988 on the Abukuma Express Line in the city of Date, Fukushima, replacing an earlier tram-line station of the same name that had closed in 1971. It sits 12.8 km from the line’s starting point at Fukushima and serves the former town of Hobara, which became part of the merged city of Date in 2006. The station has a single staffed island platform and houses a Date City tourism shop selling merchandise tied to the city’s promotional anime. In 2002 it was selected as one of the 100 representative stations of the Tōhoku region for its station building, designed to resemble the former Date district office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Date Station carries the city name, JTB’s timetable lists Hobara as the city’s representative station because the city hall sits in the former town of Hobara.