History
Kanazuka Station opened on 1 June 1914 with the inaugural section of the Murakami Line between Shibata and Nakajō. The station became part of the Uetsu Line in July 1924, then was redesignated as a Uetsu Main Line station on 20 November 1925 when the Akadani branch line opened. Freight and luggage handling ended on 1 September 1972, after which the station was unstaffed. A local agricultural cooperative ran a small supermarket on the premises until 2004, when the simplified-agency arrangement was discontinued. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1972 until 2004, the ticket window was operated by the local farm co-op, which also ran a small grocery store on the platform side of the station.