History
Nakaarai Station opened on 12 December 1947 as a station of Japanese National Railways on the Aizu Line. Freight handling was withdrawn on 1 March 1963 and parcel service on 25 September 1965, after which the station was unstaffed. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it briefly came under JR East, before being transferred to the third-sector Aizu Railway on 16 July of the same year along with the rest of the Aizu Line south of Nishi-Wakamatsu. From the March 2022 timetable revision the limited-express Liberty Aizu services no longer stop here. The station today has a single side platform and a log-cabin–style station building, and remains unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building is built in the style of a log cabin, an unusual choice for a Japanese rural station and an Aizu Railway design signature.