History
Funagata Station opened on 21 July 1902 as part of the Ōu South Line extension between Ōishida and Funagata. Freight handling was withdrawn on 10 September 1975 and parcel handling on 5 February 1978, at which point the station became unattended under simplified entrustment. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The current station building, completed on 1 April 1993, also houses the Funagata Town Tourism and Local Products Promotion Center; an extension named "Megami" was added on 23 March 2014 after the Jōmon-no-Megami clay figure unearthed nearby was designated a National Treasure.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.