History
A signal stop, Nagaikawa Signal Station, was established on the Tōhoku Main Line at this site on 1 October 1916, and renamed a signal block in April 1922. The location was upgraded to a passenger station, Minami-Fukushima, on 5 April 1962. It was destaffed on 1 December 1984 and re-staffed under JR East following the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. Suica became usable from 14 March 2009. A new station building, completed in February 2020, replaced the prior structure as part of a multi-year renewal, with elevators and a connecting passage opening in March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 2020 station building is a single-storey steel-frame structure of about 110 m² designed on the concept of "a station building where you can feel nature even while in an urban setting", using locally produced timber for the vertical lattice at the front and for the waiting-room ceiling.