History
Shirasaka Station opened on February 20, 1917 as a Railway Bureau station on the Tōhoku Main Line in the city of Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 16 April 1962 and parcels on 1 February 1984, and the station was destaffed on 14 March 1985. The 1987 JNR privatization brought the station under JR East, and a new station building was completed in March 2002. The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the building by a footbridge, and sits 182.0 rail kilometers from the Tōhoku Main Line's starting point at Tokyo Station. North of here the line falls under JR East's Tōhoku Branch.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station once had inside-passing tracks on both sides of an island platform — a remnant of the Tōhoku Main Line's days as a limited-express corridor — but those bypass tracks were removed in 1982 after the Tōhoku Shinkansen opening drastically thinned conventional-line express traffic.