Uchigo

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:42 / 22:49

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Joban Line: Iwaki (Fukushima) ⇄ Yumoto

The station opened on 25 February 1897 as Tsuzura Station, a Nippon Railway stop on what became the Jōban Line. From the late 1890s onwards it was the junction for several coal-mine industrial railways — the Joban, Iwaki and Yoshima company tramways and the Mihoshi colliery line — serving the surrounding coalfield. Nippon Railway was nationalised in November 1906. The station was renamed Uchigō on 20 December 1956, reflecting the former Uchigō City designation. Coal-line connections were progressively withdrawn through the 1960s and 1970s. It joined JR East at the 1987 privatisation, with Suica use beginning in 2009 and a new station building fully opened on 29 March 2015.

The 2015 station building incorporates a stone-effect wall in the forecourt that evokes the dressing-plant remains of the former Joban coal mine, deliberately referencing Uchigō's coal-mining heritage and the nearby National Treasure Shiramizu Amida-dō.