Hobara

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Hobara Station opened on 1 July 1988 on the Abukuma Express Line in the city of Date, Fukushima. It sits 12.8 km from the line's starting point at Fukushima and serves the former town of Hobara, now part of the city of Date. A tram station also called Hobara, on Fukushima Kōtsū's Iizaka East Line, stood in the Hobara town centre until that line closed in 1971; its site was renamed the Hobara Bus Centre. The station has a single staffed island platform and houses a Date City tourism shop selling merchandise tied to the city's promotional anime. In 2002 it was selected as one of the 100 representative stations of the Tōhoku region for its station building, designed to resemble the former Date district office.

Although Date Station carries the city name, JTB’s timetable lists Hobara as the city’s representative station because the city hall sits in the former town of Hobara.