History
Hiwada Station opened on 1 June 1897 on the Tōhoku Main Line in what is now the city of Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. The station sits 232.4 rail kilometers from the line's starting point at Tokyo and has two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1982 and parcel handling on 1 December 1984; the station was de-staffed at that time, though Kōriyama dispatched staff to issue tickets until full automation in 1993. The station joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network with the 1987 privatization of JNR. Suica IC card service began on 14 March 2009. The northbound platform was straightened and the original passing-loop layout was simplified in January 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the 2019 track-layout simplification, the through-line for the up direction sat on the inside while the platform track was on the outside — a holdover from the days when express trains overtaking local stops were a daily occurrence.