History
Aizu-Nishikata Station opened on 28 October 1941 as an intermediate stop on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Tadami Line, added during the eastern extension between Aizu-Yanaizu and Aizu-Miyashita. The station sits in the town of Mishima, Ōnuma District, Fukushima Prefecture, on a single side platform with no station building, only a platform shelter. Freight and parcel handling ended in 1965 and 1971 respectively, with the station unstaffed thereafter. It joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network on 1 April 1987 with the privatization of JNR. The current shelter dates from a March 2002 rebuild.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station actually sits in the Nairi hamlet — the Nishikata village center for which it is named lies roughly a kilometer uphill to the north.