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Hirono (Fukushima)

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Hirono (Fukushima)
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Location

History

Hirono Station opened on 23 August 1898 on the Nippon Railway, which was nationalised on 1 November 1906; the line was redesignated as the Jōban Line on 12 October 1909. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, the station closed; service from Kunohama resumed on 10 October 2011, and northward service to Tatsuta resumed on 1 June 2014. The station became part of the Tokyo metropolitan area for Suica purposes on 14 March 2020, was fully destaffed on 1 October 2021, and a new station building entered service on 9 November 2024.

Notes

A monument to the children's song "Kisha" ("Train") stands in front of the station. Local tradition holds that the song is set along this stretch of the Jōban Line and that the lyricist Ōwada Takeki wrote it when he was invited to the line's opening ceremony, although later accounts have cast doubt on that attribution, noting that only Kunohama Station had opened by the time of the invitation and proposing a different author.

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