Station

Ojika-Kogen

男鹿高原

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Ojika-Kogen
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Ojika-Kōgen Station opened on 9 October 1986 on the third-sector Yagan Railway's Aizu-Kinugawa Line, in what is now Nikkō, Tochigi. It was built in anticipation of a planned ski resort under the Aizu Fresh Resort scheme, but no resort or settlement ever materialised around the platform, which sits in a cutting at 759.7 metres elevation. The rapid and section-rapid services, which had run through to Asakusa without a limited-express surcharge, were withdrawn in the April 2017 timetable revision, and the Revaty Aizu limited express introduced in their place ceased calling here on 12 March 2022, leaving only a handful of local trains. Today it is one of Japan's better-known "secret" stations, with a notebook in the waiting room for visitors to record their pilgrimages.

Notes

In fiscal 2016 the station recorded an annual boarding total of just 352 passengers — under one per day — and a six-hour midday gap between trains is now routine.

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