History
Sekito Station opened on 15 July 1899 on the privately built Iwaetsu Railway and was nationalised on 1 November 1906. The unusual name was coined by combining the names of two nearby hamlets, Sekiwaki and Miyakozawa. Located in the town of Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture on what is now JR East's Ban'etsu West Line, it has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. Freight ended on 1 October 1961, parcel handling and staffing on 1 September 1972, and the station became fully unstaffed on 10 March 1983 with the line's CTC rollout. JR East took over on 1 April 1987, and the depot was rebuilt in a brick-style design in December 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name itself was coined by combining one character from each of two nearby hamlets — Sekiwaki and Miyakozawa — rather than from any existing place name.