History
Namie Station opened on 23 August 1898 as a station of the private Nippon Railway in what is now Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. Following nationalisation in November 1906 the line became part of the state-operated network, and route-name designation in October 1909 placed the station on the Jōban Line. Freight and parcel handling ended in February 1984, and the station passed to JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. Operations were suspended from 11 March 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Service resumed between Namie and Odaka on 1 April 2017, and the final reopening between Namie and Tomioka took place on 14 March 2020, at which point the station became unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since the Jōban Line reopened in March 2020, Namie has been the northernmost station in the greater-Tokyo Suica service area.