Shiwa-chuo

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Shiwa-Chūō Station opened on 14 March 1998 as a citizen-petition station, with about 268 million yen of the 270 million yen target funded by community donations because legal limits restricted Shiwa Town's direct outlay. The platforms were built between the existing Hizume and Furudate stations, at the town's transport hub where National Routes 4 and 396 and the Tōhoku Expressway converge — the position that gave the station its name. Initially a prefab station building hosted services until a single-storey wooden station-waiting facility — formally a Shiwa Town building rather than rail infrastructure — was completed on 12 November 2001 under Forestry Agency subsidy. Staffing arrived on 17 March 2018 with a Midori-no-Madoguchi window, and Suica acceptance followed on 27 May 2023.

The wooden waiting facility's central octagonal tower symbolises the one town and eight villages that merged to form Shiwa, and many of its components are dimensioned in numbers — 140, 57, 39 and 28 — drawn from the town's exact coordinates of 140°57'E / 39°28'N.