Aizu-Hongo

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Aizu-Hongō Station opened on 15 October 1926 as an intermediate stop on the initial eastern section of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Tadami Line out of Aizu-Wakamatsu. The station sits in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on the boundary with what is now Aizumisato — the historical Aizu-Hongō pottery district that gave it its name. Freight handling ended in 1971 and parcel handling, along with staffing, in March 1984. The original wooden building was later replaced by a simple shelter. After the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It now consists of a single side platform with no passing facility.

Local residents lobbied unsuccessfully to relocate the station closer to Hongō town center, 1.5 kilometers away, fearing the distance would hurt Aizu-Hongō ceramics shipments; they ultimately settled for at least having the station bear the name Hongō.