Aizu Wakamatsu Station

Aizu-Wakamatsu Station 会津若松駅
Aizu-Wakamatsu Station, platform 1
Location	Ekimae-cho, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima （福島県会津若松市駅前町） Japan
Operated by	JR East
History
Opened	1899
Previous names	Wakamatsu (until 1917)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013)	2,908 daily

Aizu-Wakamatsu Station (会津若松駅^?, Aizu-wakamatsu-eki) is a railway station in Aizuwakamatsu, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It is the main station for Aizu-Wakamatsu and surrounding areas.

The following lines pass through or terminate at Aizu-Wakamatsu Station:

In the forecourt of the station there is a bus terminal, taxi rank and car park. The station building, located on the eastern side of the tracks, contains a gift shop (including bento and souvenirs), travel agency (View Plaza), and Midori no Madoguchi ticket office. Aizu-Wakamatsu Station has five platforms. Platform 1 and 2 are bay platforms. Platform 1 is immediately inside the ticket gate and most trains to Koriyama depart from here. Moving westward there is a storage track then platforms 2 and 3. The tracks at platform 1 and 2 are a dead end and an overhead walkway at the end connects platforms 2/3 to platform 1 and the rest of the station. Platforms 4 and 5 are accessed via an overhead bridge.

The station opened on July 15, 1899, as Wakamatsu Station of the Ganetsu Railway. On May 21, 1917, the station was renamed Aizu-Wakamatsu. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 2,908 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

There is a webcam installed by NTT East on the walkway between platforms 1 and 2/3. This gives a view of trains using platforms 1 and 2. The camera provides both video and sound using a 512 kbit/s stream. The webcam was discontinued as of the 31/03/2017.

There is a freight depot located adjacent to the station.

(Discontinued 31/03/2017.)