Haranomachi Station
railway station on the Jōban Line in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan
Haranomachi Station (原ノ町駅, Haranomachi-eki) is a railway station in the city of Minamisōma, Fukushima, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Haranomachi Station is served by the Joban Line, and is located 286.9 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori.
Station layout
The station has a side platform and an island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket counter.
Platforms
History
Haranomachi Station opened on 3 April 1898. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
Train services from the station were suspended following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. From 21 December 2011, limited services were restored on the section of the Joban Line between Haranomachi and Sōma.
In March 2016, the two trains, a four-car 651 series (Super Hitachi) EMU and a 415-1500 series EMU, stranded at the station since the March 2011 tsunami, were removed by road for scrapping.
The section of the Joban Line between Odaka and Haranomachi reopened on 12 July 2016.
“Haranomachi Station” enters the record as railway station on the Jōban Line in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haranomachi, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Haranomachi Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Haranomachi, Station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5654173. Authority coordinates are 37.638, 140.971. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1987, 2011 and 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Haranomachi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.