Station

Shiokawa

塩川

Shiokawa
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Shiokawa Station opened on 20 January 1904 as part of the privately owned Iwaetsu Railway, becoming a state-operated stop when the line was nationalized on 1 November 1906. Located on what is now JR East's Ban'etsu West Line in Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture, it stands 75.1 kilometers from Kōriyama. A cement-shipping terminal opened in the station yard in March 1975, with regular freight ending in 2007. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight on 1 April 1987 with the privatization of Japanese National Railways, and an east–west pedestrian concourse opened in November 2025, replacing the older footbridge.

Notes

The station's most visible building is not the depot itself but the Shiokawa Fureai Hall, a samurai-residence-styled hall funded through the Furusato Sōsei municipal grant program; the actual station consists of a glass-walled waiting room reached by passing through that hall.

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