Iwaki Station (Fukushima)

Iwaki Station

いわき駅
Iwaki Station; いわき駅
	Iwaki Station south entrance, May 2010
General information
Location	1 Tamachi, Taira, Iwaki, Fukushima; （福島県いわき市平字田町1）; Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Jōban Line, Banetsu East Line
Connections	Bus terminal;
History
Opened	1897
Previous names	Taira (until 1994)
Passengers
FY2013	6136 daily

Iwaki Station (いわき駅, Iwaki-eki) is a JR East railway station located in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

Iwaki Station is served by both the Jōban Line and the Banetsu East Line. It and is located 209.4 km from the official starting point of the Jōban Line at Nippori Station. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011, Iwaki Station has become the northern terminus for limited express train services on the line. The station is also a terminus of the Banetsu East Line.

Station layout

Iwaki Station is an elevated station with three opposed island platforms. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1, 2	■ Jōban Line	for Ibaraki
3, 4	■ Jōban Line	for Hisanohama and Tatsuta
5	■ Jōban Line	for Hisanohama and Tatsuta for Mito
6	■ Banetsu East Line	for Ogawagō and Miyagi

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Ban'etsu East Line
Uchigō	Local	Akai
Joban Line
Uchigō	Local	Fukushima

History

Iwaki Station was opened on 25 February 1897 as Taira Station (平駅, Taira-eki). On 10 October 1917 the Banetsu East Line was extended from to Kōriyama. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. It was renamed to its present name on 3 December 1994. A new station building was completed on 19 June 2009.^{[citation needed]}