History
Nozawa Station opened on 1 August 1913 when the Railway Bureau's Iwaetsu Line was extended from Yamato Station, with the line through to Tsugawa following on 1 November 1914 to complete what is now the Ban'etsu West Line. Located in the town of Nishiaizu in Yama District, Fukushima Prefecture, the station has one island platform plus a side platform serving three tracks in total. Freight handling ended on 8 April 1977, parcels on 14 March 1985, and it became unstaffed on 1 July 1991. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nozawa once handled annual surges of pilgrimage traffic for the Ōyamazumi Shrine June festival, with extra trains nicknamed Ōyama-rin or Nozawa-rin laid on daily during the festival; coach travel along the Ban'etsu Expressway has since largely replaced rail visits.