Station

Aizu-Arakai

会津荒海

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Aizu-Arakai
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Aizu-Arakai Station opened on 12 December 1947 as Arakai Station, a stop on the state-run Aizu Line. Freight handling ended on 29 August 1971 and parcel service on 1 February 1984. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station briefly came under JR East, before being transferred to the third-sector Aizu Railway on 16 July of that year along with the rest of the line between Nishi-Wakamatsu and Aizukōgen-Ozeguchi. It was renamed Aizu-Arakai at that handover and lost its railway staff, counter duties being commissioned from the outset to the local agricultural cooperative (JA); it became completely unstaffed once the cooperative's branch closed. It retains two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing at the Aizu-Wakamatsu end.

Notes

The station-name sign reads "Poem of the Okuraire Shogunal Domain."

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