History
Ōgoe Station opened on 21 March 1915 as a stop on the JNR Heigun West Line, the precursor of today's Ban'etsu East Line, in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. Its Japanese reading was changed from "Ōkoe" to "Ōgoe" on 16 January 1950. The current reinforced-concrete station building was completed in 1964, funded by local utility-bond purchases. A Sumitomo Cement plant siding opened here in 1963; freight operations ended on 10 March 2000 with the plant's closure, and JR Freight's station was formally abolished on 1 April 2001. The station was destaffed on 1 April 2016 and is now managed remotely from Kōriyama Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 2000 the station served as the railhead for Sumitomo Cement's Tamura plant, with a private siding hauling cement to Kōriyama Freight Terminal as its final regular cargo.