Odaka Station opened on 11 May 1898. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station was closed on 11 March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The station reopened on 12 July 2016 with the reopening of the section of the Joban Line between Odaka and . The section southward to was scheduled to reopen in spring 2017, and resumed services on 1 April 2017.