Kawamae

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Kawamae Station opened on 10 October 1917 on what is now the Ban'etsu East Line, 26.3 km from the line's origin at Iwaki. Freight services ended on 1 September 1972 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station joined the JR East network with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and was unstaffed in March 1989 when the line moved to centralised traffic control. Management transferred to Kōriyama Station in April 2016, and the long-standing station building was reconstructed in 2017. Eki-Net Q-ticket service was introduced on 1 October 2024.

An episode of the long-running TV detective series Sasurai Keiji Ryojō-hen was filmed at the station, using the remote forested setting along the Natsui River as a backdrop.