Iwanuma

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Iwanuma Station opened on 15 December 1887 under the private Nippon Railway as a station on what is now the Tōhoku Main Line. The Iwaki Line, today's Jōban Line, joined here on 10 November 1897, and the two lines have used Iwanuma as a junction ever since. Nippon Railway was nationalised in 1906, and the present station building entered service on 1 March 1980. JR East and JR Freight took over operations on 1 April 1987. The east-west free passage was completed in March 1999, and a typhoon-driven flood in September 2011 forced a three-day suspension of services following a signal-equipment fire. One Hitachi limited express round trip calls here each day.

The station occupies the former site of Iwanuma Castle, the seat of the Iwanuma Domain ruled by the Tamura clan from 1662 to 1681 as a sub-fief of Sendai.