Arakawaoki

Weekday departures: 133/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 115/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:28 / 24:12 (00:12 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (13)

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: Tsuchiura ⇄ Hitachino-Ushiku

Arakawaoki Station opened on 25 December 1896 on what is now the Jōban Line, in the city of Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. It is located 57.2 kilometres from the nominal start of the line at Nippori Station, and is an elevated station with two opposed side platforms and a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. Operation of the station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. On 23 March 2008 a man went on a stabbing spree with two knives in the passageway linking the station to a nearby shopping street, killing one person and injuring seven others.

On 23 March 2008 a 24-year-old man went on a stabbing spree with two knives in the passageway linking the station to a nearby shopping street, killing one person and injuring seven others.