History
Iwaki-Tokiwa Station opened on 10 April 1921 on the Banetsu East Line. Freight handling ended on 15 March 1962 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under JR East control. The station was destaffed (under a simplified-agency arrangement) on 11 March 1989 when the line moved to CTC operation, and the agency role was abolished on 1 March 2007. A new station building was completed on 6 December 2012, and station-area administration moved to Kōriyama Station in April 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite the name, the station is not in Tokiwa (now part of Tamura City) but about 4 km away in former Funehiki Town, because Tokiwa residents — supporters of Kōno Hironaka of the Kenseikai — opposed the original line as a Seiyūkai government project; the line was re-routed around the village. After realising the importance of rail, Tokiwa residents petitioned for a station at the nearest possible point and donated the land themselves, leading to the 1921 opening some years after the rest of the line.