Ageo

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Ageo Station opened on 28 July 1883 as a station of the Nippon Railway (now the Takasaki Line), making it one of the oldest stations in the prefecture and on the line alongside Urawa, Kōnosu and Kumagaya. Nationalisation in November 1906 brought it under government rail, and the station building was rebuilt in 1935. An elevated station building was completed on 8 December 1969. On 13 March 1973 the station became the scene of the Ageo Incident, a riot by passengers reacting to the JNR unions' work-to-rule action. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and Suica IC service began in November 2001. From 1 June 2010 the departure melodies use an arrangement of Ageo City's anthem, and at the timetable revision of 13 March 2021 the station became a stop for every Rapid service.

Ageo Station was the flashpoint of the 1973 "Ageo Incident" — on 13 March 1973 commuters angered by Japanese National Railways' work-to-rule industrial action rioted at the station, damaging the station building and trains.