Timetable information
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Location
History
Sōri Station opened on 31 December 1912 as a station of the Ashio Railway and was nationalised on 1 June 1918, becoming a station on the government-run Ashio Line. Freight handling ended in 1970 and parcel handling in 1984, and the station passed briefly to JR East at the 1987 privatisation before transferring to the third-sector Watarase Keikoku Railway on 29 March 1989, when it also became unstaffed and its kana spelling was changed from そおり to そうり. Today the wooden station building also houses a simple post office, and the station is a stop on the Watarase Keikoku Line, numbered WK13. The platform and waiting room were registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property on 2 November 2009.
Notes
The wooden station building doubles as the Sōri Simple Post Office on weekdays, and local residents have planted around 2,200 hydrangea bushes around the platforms; the 2018 NHK morning drama Hanbun, Aoi used the station as fictional "Natsumushi Station" in a sequence broadcast that June.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: LERK · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-06-09