Iwaki-Ota

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Iwaki-Ōta Station opened on 11 May 1898 as Japanese Railway's Taka Station, and was renamed Iwaki-Ōta Station on 1 December of the same year. Following the nationalization of Japanese Railway on 1 November 1906, it came under the Jōban Line with the establishment of line names on 12 October 1909. Freight handling ended on 2 October 1972 and parcel handling on 1 October 1975, and on 1 March 1977 it became unstaffed, with simplified contracted service handed to a shop in front of the station. It passed to JR East in the National Railways' privatization and division on 1 April 1987, the simplified contract was ended in 1993, leaving it fully unstaffed, and the wooden station building was rebuilt in March 1999. Operations were suspended by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident of 11 March 2011, service resumed with the reopening of the Odaka–Haranomachi section on 12 July 2016, and on 14 March 2020 it was incorporated into the Sendai metropolitan area, making Suica usable.

Iwaki-Ōta Station is the only station on the Jōban Line to carry "Iwaki," the old provincial name of coastal Fukushima Prefecture, and from 2011 until April 2012 it stood on the boundary of the exclusion zone established after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.