Station

Suigo

水郷

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Suigo
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Timetable information

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

Location

History

Suigō Station opened on 10 November 1931 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways' Narita Line. Because the station's site lay on the boundary between the former villages of Toyoura and Ōkura, the two districts agreed to name it "Suigō" ("water country"), a term referring to the lower reaches of the Tone River. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 October 1962 and parcel handling on 26 September 1970, and the station was made unstaffed on 15 March 1974 when a footbridge was installed. On 1 April 1987 it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the privatization and division of Japanese National Railways, and on 11 June 1993 it was rebuilt into its current station building, which incorporates a medieval-European-style community plaza. The Suica IC card has been usable there since 14 March 2009, and the station has been incorporated into the Greater Tokyo area.

Notes

The "Suigō" sightseeing district actually refers to the area around Jūnikyō Station, Sawara Station, and Itako Station in Ibaraki Prefecture, and Suigō Station is known for not being located at the scenic spot its name suggests.

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