History
Kido Station opened on 23 August 1898 as a station of Nippon Railway in present-day Naraha, Fukushima. The line was nationalized in 1906 and assigned to the Jōban Line in 1909. The station became unstaffed in 1984. Following the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East. Operations were suspended on 11 March 2011 as a consequence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, and through services south of the station resumed on 1 June 2014, after which the station has remained permanently unstaffed. In March 2020 it was incorporated into the Tokyo metropolitan Suica area.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Kido lies almost exactly halfway between Mito and Sendai stations on the Jōban Line.