History
Aizu-Arakai Station opened on 12 December 1947 as Arakai Station, a Japanese National Railways stop on the Aizu Line. Freight handling ended on 29 August 1971 and parcel service on 1 February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station briefly came under JR East, before being transferred to the third-sector Aizu Railway on 16 July of that year along with the rest of the line between Nishi-Wakamatsu and Aizukogen-Ozeguchi. The station was renamed Aizu-Arakai at that handover and was also unstaffed; it later ran for a time under a JA commission until the JA branch closed. It retains two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing at the Aizu-Wakamatsu end.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.