Aizu-Shiozawa Station

Railway station in Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Preceding station	JR East			Following station
Aizu-Gamō towards Koide		Tadami Line		Aizu-Ōshio towards Aizu-Wakamatsu

Location
Aizu-Shiozawa Station Location within JR Tadami Line Show map of JR Tadami Line Aizu-Shiozawa Station Aizu-Shiozawa Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Aizu-Shiozawa Station (会津塩沢駅, Aizu-Shiozawa-eki) is a railway station on the Tadami Line in the town of Tadami, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Aizu-Shiozawa Station is served by the Tadami Line, and is located 80.9 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Aizu-Wakamatsu.

Station layout

Aizu-Shiozawa Station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The platform is very short and can only accommodate a single carriage. The station is unattended.

History

Aizu-Shiozawa Station was opened by the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on February 1, 1965, as an intermediate station on the extension of eastern section of the Tadami Line between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Tadami.^[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.

Due to damage caused by torrential rainfall on July 30, 2011, services on the section of line between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Tadami, which includes this station were replaced by a provisional bus service. The closed section resumed operations on 1 October 2022.^[2]

Surrounding area

References

^ "Tadami Line User Manual" (PDF). Union Workshop. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
^ "只見線、2022年10月1日全線運転再開へ" [Tadami Line to resume operation on October 1, 2022]. tetsudo.ch (in Japanese). 18 May 2022. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.