History
Bandaimachi Station opened on 15 July 1899 as Ōdera Station on the privately built Iwaetsu Railway, becoming a state station with the line's nationalisation on 1 November 1906. It was renamed Bandaimachi on 1 June 1965. Located in the town of Bandai in Fukushima Prefecture, the station sits 51.2 kilometers from Kōriyama on what is now JR East's Ban'etsu West Line, with a single staffed island platform serving two tracks. Freight on dedicated sidings ended in March 1985, and the station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatization. The wooden depot was renovated on 20 March 2010 and an east–west pedestrian concourse opened on 12 April 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Bandaimachi was the rail head for Tokyo Electric Light's private Ōdera Railway, used to ferry construction material to the Inawashiro No. 2 and No. 3 hydroelectric stations; an unloading yard once stood west of the depot, and a catch siding ran east to stop runaway trains during the Meiji and Taishō eras.