Shirakawa

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Shirakawa Station opened on July 16, 1887 as a Nippon Railway facility, rushed into service so it could carry observers to the total solar eclipse of August 19 that year. After the 1906 nationalization and the 1909 line-name reform it became a Tōhoku Main Line station, and from 1916 it was also the terminus of the Hakuhō Railway to Iwaki-Tanakura — nationalized in 1941 as the Hakuhō Line — until that line was suspended as a non-essential wartime route in December 1944. The Kuroiso–Shirakawa section was AC-electrified in July 1959. The station passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatization, and in 2002 was selected as one of the "100 best stations of Tōhoku" for its distinctive Taishō-era station building with its red-tiled roof and stained glass.

The station's red-tiled, stained-glass Taishō-era building, opened in 1921, was selected as one of the Hyakusen "100 best stations" of Tōhoku and later served as the location for a 2020 Daihatsu Move Canbus television commercial.