History
Momouchi Station began on 15 February 1944 as Momouchi Signal Station under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and was promoted to a full passenger station as Momouchi on 10 August 1948. It sits in the city of Minamisōma in Fukushima Prefecture on JR East's Jōban Line, 273.5 kilometers from Nippori. Freight ended on 1 February 1961, parcels on 1 October 1975, and the station was unstaffed from 14 March 1985. JR East took over on 1 April 1987. Service was suspended from 11 March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and the station reopened on 1 April 2017 when the Namie–Odaka section returned to operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because Momouchi sits between two separate Suica zones (Tokyo on one side, Sendai on the other) and was never re-incorporated after the 2011 closure, it is the only Jōban Line station where IC fare cards such as Suica cannot be used to pay fares.