History
Iwaki-Tanakura Station opened on 29 November 1916 as a Hakuho Railway station. The Japanese Government Railways' Suigun South Line connected here on 11 November 1932, and the Suigun Line was completed in 1934. The state leased the Hakuho Railway from October 1938, then nationalised it on 1 May 1941 as the Hakuhō Line, which was suspended as a non-essential wartime line on 11 December 1944 — the railway was never rebuilt and survives today only as the JR Bus Kanto Hakuhō Line. Freight ended in 1982 and baggage in 1984. It joined JR East at the 1987 privatisation, and a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office operated from 1993 until October 2018. Full destaffing followed in March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite the station's name being read "Iwaki-Tanakura" with a voiceless "ku", the town of Tanagura that surrounds it reads its own name with a voiced "gu" — a long-standing pronunciation mismatch never resolved.