History
Inawashiro Station opened on 15 July 1899 as a station of the privately built Iwaetsu Railway and was nationalised on 1 November 1906. Located in the town of Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture on what is now JR East's Ban'etsu West Line, it stands 36.7 kilometers from Kōriyama. The main building was rebuilt in March 1956. Freight ended in 1972 alongside automatic ticket vending; a Midori no Madoguchi office opened on 1 April 1974, parcels were dropped in 1984. JR East took over on 1 April 1987, Suica access began on 1 April 2014, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 31 October 2022, replaced the next day by a reserved-seat ticket machine.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The hand-painted, lettered station name signs lend Inawashiro a deliberately retro atmosphere, and in 2002 the depot was selected for the Tōhoku Top 100 Stations list on that basis.