Ashikaga

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Ashikaga Station opened on 22 May 1888 as a station of the privately operated Ryōmō Railway, 38.2 km from Oyama on what is now the Ryōmō Line. After Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987 it came under JR East. Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001. On 25 July 2008 the station building was struck by lightning, damaging its second floor. In July 2015 Ashikaga and the nearby Tōbu-operated Ashikagashi Station adopted Chisato Moritaka's 1993 song "Watarasebashi" — which pays homage to Ashikaga — as their train melody. In February 2021 the platform-name signs were replaced with textile-pattern designs honouring the Ryōmō Line.

Ashikaga and the Tōbu-operated Ashikagashi Station share a train melody — Chisato Moritaka's 1993 song "Watarasebashi," which pays homage to the city of Ashikaga — adopted by both stations together in July 2015.