History
Ōno Station opened as a Nippon Railway station on 22 November 1904 in Ōkuma, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, with the village having committed in 1903 to purchase the 3,600 tsubo of land and donate it to the railway company. Following the 1906 nationalisation of Nippon Railway, the route was designated as the Jōban Line on 12 October 1909. The station passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, and a new station building with a free passageway opened on 30 March 1988. Service was suspended after the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, then resumed on 14 March 2020 with the reopening of the Tomioka–Namie section; the station was simultaneously brought into the Tokyo suburban Suica area, the line through it was singled, and a "Smart Station for EXPRESS" replaced the staffed ticket office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Ōno is the closest station to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, about three kilometres east of the platforms. Although it sits inside the difficult-to-return zone, the station precinct and immediate frontage were reopened on 5 March 2020 as a specified reconstruction and revitalisation base area, ahead of the wider lifting of evacuation orders on 30 June 2022.