History
Hayato Station opened on 20 September 1956 as a general station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Tadami Line's eastern extension between Aizu-Miyashita and Aizu-Kawaguchi, in what is now the town of Mishima, Ōnuma District, Fukushima Prefecture. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1 November 1959. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is unstaffed and has no proper building, only a small concrete shelter beside the single side platform, completed in December 2007. After the July 2011 floods suspended through services, replacement buses ran on the affected sections until the line reopened the following December.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is featured in episode 5 of the TV series Tetsu Ota Michiko, 20,000 km, and is regarded as a hikyō-eki, a remote and lightly-visited stop deep in the Tadami valley.