History
Higashidate Station opened on 16 April 1930 on what is now the Suigun Line, in the town of Yamatsuri, Fukushima. On 1 October 1970 freight handling ceased, and on 1 June 1983, with the introduction of centralised traffic control on the Suigun Line, the station was destaffed; ticket sales were contracted to the local municipality as a simple-commission arrangement. Higashidate passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. A community space called "Higashidate Machiai-shitsu" was opened inside the building in March 2022, and the disused passing siding was taken out of service around June 2025, leaving a single platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The town's official place-name uses the character 舘, but the station name has historically been written with 館 — so the village signs and the station signs spell their shared name differently.