History
Nakayamajuku Station opened on 26 July 1898 as a provisional stop on the Ban'etsu West Line in what is now Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, and was upgraded to full station status on 10 March 1899. It was absorbed into the JR East network on 1 April 1987 at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The original switchback configuration, used by trains negotiating the steep gradient, remained in service until 1997, when tunnel construction allowed the platform to be relocated to its current position and the switchback was demolished. Today the station has a single side platform serving one bi-directional track, no station building (only a small shelter on the platform), and operates unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.