Akatsuka

Weekday departures: 90/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 89/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:39 / 24:43 (00:43 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (8)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Mito (Ibaraki) ⇄ Uchihara

Akatsuka Station opened on 4 January 1894 as a Nippon Railway station; it was nationalised on 1 November 1906 and assigned to the Jōban Line when line names were codified in 1909. From 24 October 1926 until 11 February 1971 it was the starting point of the Ibaraki Railway Line (later the Ibaraki Kōtsū Ibaraki Line), which ran to Katsura. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East and JR Freight; scheduled freight trains had already been withdrawn on 1 April 1991, and the JR Freight station was abolished on 10 December 2005. The current overhead station building, served by a north–south free passage, entered service between November 1999 and March 2000, and a train-direction-linked escalator was added on 20 October 2000.

When the new building opened in 2000, Akatsuka received a "train-linked" escalator whose direction reversed automatically to match the next train's arrival or departure.