History
Shōden Station opened on 10 July 1955 as a newly built station of the Japanese National Railways' Obonai Line. With the reorganisation of the line on 20 October 1966 it became a station of the Tazawako Line. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. On 1 October 2020, following the conversion of Kakunodate to outsourced operation, management was transferred to Ōmagari Station, and the Eki-net Q-Chiket service started on 1 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Shōden has no station building at all — only a single side platform with a shelter on it. Despite the kanji 生田, it is read "Shōden" rather than "Ikuta" or "Namata".