History
Sasaya Station opened on 13 April 1924 as Maeyachi Station with the inauguration of the Fukushima Iizaka Tramway, the predecessor to today’s Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka Line. It was renamed to its present form on 10 February 1925. The station sits 4.2 km from the line’s starting point at Fukushima and has a single island platform connected by a level crossing, serving two tracks. The ticket window is staffed in the morning and evening on weekdays and on weekend afternoons; midday weekday trains pass through the station, and during the line’s 25-minute mid-day pattern this is one of the line’s designated passing stations. Sasaya recorded 490 boarding passengers per day in fiscal 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite being one of only a handful of attended stations on the Iizaka Line, Sasaya is staffed only in the morning and evening on weekdays and during parts of weekend afternoons.