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Date Station opened on 1 April 1895 as Nagaoka Station, built by the private Nippon Railway in what was then Nagaoka Village in Date District. To avoid duplicating the Shin’etsu Main Line’s Nagaoka Station, it was renamed Date Station on 1 December 1914, taking the district name. The line was nationalised in 1906 and absorbed into JR East at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The current wooden station building, completed in June 1939, was designed to evoke a structure beside the nearby Ryōzen Shrine. The plaza in front of the station was renovated in February 2020. The station serves the Tōhoku Main Line in the city of Date, Fukushima.

Until 1971 a tram line of the Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka-Tō System departed from the station forecourt; the line’s closure left only the JR platforms in service.