History
Funehiki Station opened on 21 March 1915 in what is now the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, on the Ban'etsu East Line. The station has a single island platform connected to its building by a level crossing. Freight handling ended in October 1979 and parcel handling in February 1984. With the 1 April 1987 privatization of the Japanese National Railways it joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network. The current three-story building, attached to the Funehiki Community Plaza, was completed in September 2004. Suica IC card service began in March 2009, and the station became contracted out in 2013. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed at the end of January 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is the easternmost stop on the Ban'etsu East Line within the Niigata-area Suica zone; travel further east toward Iwaki cannot be paid for with the IC card.