Omata

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Omata Station is an unstaffed single-island-platform station on the JR East Ryōmō Line in Omata-machi, Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, and is the westernmost station in Tochigi Prefecture. It opened on 10 October 1889 as a Ryōmō Railway station on the Ashikaga–Kiryū section, passed to Nippon Railway on 1 January 1897, was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and was incorporated into Japanese National Railways at the corporation's founding on 1 June 1949. Freight service ended on 1 September 1961 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984; the station was made unstaffed on 14 March 1985 and passed to JR East with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. It was subsequently a directly operated station, and was made unstaffed again on 1 December 2003. Suica IC card service began on 18 November 2001.

On 29 January 2019 a memorial plaque honouring Kimura Hanbei, the local figure who championed the construction of the Ryōmō Railway predecessor of the line, was unveiled in front of the station by the local Kimura Hanbei Commemoration Association.