History
Jōshū-Fukushima Station serves the town of Kanra in Gunma Prefecture and is operated by Jōshin Dentetsu on its Jōshin Line, 16.6 kilometres from the Takasaki terminus. It opened on 10 May 1897 as Fukushima Station and was renamed to its present form on 17 December 1921 to distinguish it from other Fukushima stations on the national network. It has an island platform with two tracks and a wooden station building, and is a consignment-staffed station. A 1924 substation building next to the station still supplies power to the line. The site is the historical access point for the castle town of the former Obata domain.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 20 February 2005 the travel writer Yokomi Hirohiko ended his decades-long project to alight at every passenger station then operating in Japan by stepping off at Jōshū-Fukushima; the moment was later depicted in the manga series Tetsuko no Tabi.