History
Shiokawa Station opened on 20 January 1904 as part of the privately owned Iwaetsu Railway, becoming a state-operated stop when the line was nationalized on 1 November 1906. Located on what is now JR East's Ban'etsu West Line in Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture, it stands 75.1 kilometers from Kōriyama. A cement-shipping terminal opened in the station yard in March 1975, with regular freight ending in 2007. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight on 1 April 1987 with the privatization of Japanese National Railways, and an east–west pedestrian concourse opened in November 2025, replacing the older footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's most visible building is not the depot itself but the Shiokawa Fureai Hall, a samurai-residence-styled hall funded through the Furusato Sōsei municipal grant program; the actual station consists of a glass-walled waiting room reached by passing through that hall.