Station

Godai

後台

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Godai
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Godai Station opened on 1 September 1935 as a passenger-only station on the government-run Suigun Line in what is now Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture - originally written with the older form of the kanji. Operations were suspended on 10 August 1941, and the station reopened on 1 February 1953 as an unstaffed stop handling only railcar passenger traffic. The station passed to JR East upon the 1 April 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. A simplified ticket vending machine was added on 8 May 2001. The station closed temporarily after the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and resumed service a month later on 11 April 2011.

Notes

Two written forms of the name Godai coexist around the station: the station and the local place name use 後台, while 五台 — the name of the former village that was merged into Naka in 1955 — survives in facility names such as the local elementary school and post office. Both are read the same way.

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