Built in 1898, the station was destroyed by a tsunami in March 2011, and reopened six years later in October 2017.

[1] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

In January 2015, work started on dismantling the remains of the station building and footbridge.

Tomioka was within the evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Residents were not allowed to stay overnight in the area for six years time after the incident due to the high radiation levels in the period.