History
Ogawagō Station opened on July 10, 1915 as a Japanese Government Railways general station on what is now the Ban'etsu East Line, in the present-day city of Iwaki, Fukushima. Freight handling outside a Sumitomo Cement private siding ended in October 1972, and full car-load freight was retired in July 1985. The station was absorbed into JR East at the 1987 JNR privatization and was destaffed in March 1989 when the line went to CTC operation. JR East announced a rebuild in mid-2023, started work that September, and put the new station building into service on 19 March 2024. The station is 10.3 rail kilometers from Iwaki.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The former station's underground passage features panels and artwork honoring the poet Kusano Shinpei, who was born in Ogawa-machi and whose former home stands near the station.