History
Jōmon-Ogata Station opened on 10 December 1963 as Ogata Station (小ヶ田駅) on the Japanese National Railways Aniai Line, serving the town of Takanosu in Akita Prefecture; it was unstaffed from the outset. The line passed to the third-sector Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway on 1 November 1986. On 14 March 2020 the station was renamed Jōmon-Ogata in honour of the nearby Isedōtai late-Jōmon stone circles, which were then under nomination for World Heritage inscription as part of the "Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan" serial property. The station building was refurbished in July 2021 in a Jōmon-themed design — Akita cedar painted black on the outside, with floor stones laid out to evoke the Isedōtai stone circles.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was renamed and the building re-skinned to advertise the Isedōtai stone circles next door — the floor of the waiting room is now laid out with stones mimicking a Jōmon-period circle.