History
Kikuta Station opened on 26 July 1898 as Horinouchi Station on the Iwakoshi Railway in what is now the city of Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. The Iwakoshi Railway was nationalized in 1906, and the station was renamed Kikuta on 10 April 1915. Freight handling ended in March 1963, after which the station was de-staffed in March 1983 as centralized traffic control was introduced across the Ban'etsu West Line; the current modest building dates from November of that year. The station joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network on 1 April 1987 with the privatization of the Japanese National Railways. Since March 2017 all scheduled rapid services have stopped here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's bus stop, Kikuta-eki-mae, was withdrawn by Fukushima Kōtsū on 1 April 2021, leaving no scheduled bus service at the front of the station.