Yumoto Station

For the railway station in Hakone, see Hakone-Yumoto Station.

Yumoto Station 湯本駅
Yumoto Station, March 2011
Location	Iwaki-Yumoto-cho Tennozaki 92, Iwaki, Fukushima （福島県いわき市常磐湯本町天王崎92） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Jōban Line
History
Opened	1897
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013)	2139 daily

Yumoto Station (湯本駅, Yumoto-eki) is a JR East railway station located in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

Yumoto Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 201.5 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori Station.

Station layout

Yumoto Station has one island platform and one side platform connected to the station building by an overhead passageway. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Jōban Line	for Iwaki and Tatsuta
2	■ Jōban Line	for Mito
3	■ Jōban Line	for Mito

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Joban Line
Rapid: no stop
Izumi		Local		Uchigō

History

Yumoto Station opened on 25 February 1897. The present station building was compleed I March 1967. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in November 2014.

Surrounding area

• Iwaki Yumoto onsen
• Spa Resort Hawaiians
• Iwaki Coal and Fossil Museum
• Iwaki Post Office
• Japan National Route 6

External links

• Station information JR East Station Information (Japanese)