History
Izumizaki Station opened on 25 February 1896 as a station of the private Nippon Railway, 197.4 km from the southern starting-point of what is now the Tōhoku Main Line at Tokyo Station. Nippon Railway was nationalised in November 1906, and the line was redesignated as the Tōhoku Main Line in October 1909. Car-load freight handling ended in December 1962 and all remaining freight on 1 October 1974; parcel service ended on 1 February 1984 and the station was unstaffed in December the same year. The current compact station building dates from March 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station became part of JR East.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.