is a

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in the town of

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, Japan, operated by the

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

(JR East).

Lines

Yonomori Station is served by the

Jōban Line The Jōban Line ( ja, 常磐線, ) is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line officially begins at Nippori Station in Arakawa, Tokyo before the line officially ends at Iwanuma Station in Iwanuma, ...

, and is located 253.0 km from the official starting point of the line at

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Station layout

The station has one

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with an elevated station building. The station is unattended.

History

Yonomori Station was opened on 15 March 1921. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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of the

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(JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station was closed on March 11, 2011, following the

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...

, and was reopened on December 18, 2019, after rebuilding.

Surrounding area

Yonomori is within the evacuation zone surrounding the

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a site in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The ...

. Since August 2012 it has been possible to enter the area to the west of the station, but remaining in the area overnight is prohibited. The station and the area to the east of the station remain off limits at all times due to high radiation levels. It reopened along with the rest of the exclusion zone on March 14, 2020. * Yonomori Post Office *

References

External links

JR East Station Information
{{Joban Line Railway stations in Fukushima Prefecture Jōban Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1921 Tomioka, Fukushima