History
Hayadōri Station opened on 1957-02-11 on Japanese National Railways' Hakushin Line, originally sited about 200 metres further toward Niizaki and equipped with a 60-metre platform serving passenger traffic only as an unstaffed halt. The station was relocated to its present site on 1970-10-01 to better serve a newly built prefectural housing estate, with the platform extended to 90 metres. A further 40-metre extension in March 1986 made it possible to accommodate six-car trains. The station passed to JR East with the JNR breakup on 1987-04-01, gained automated ticket gates in March 2005, and accepted Suica from 2006-01-21.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the automated ticket gates were installed in 2005 the footbridge briefly stopped serving as a free passage between the north and south sides of the tracks; complaints from residents led JR East to split the gates by platform on 2005-12-26 and restore the footbridge as a free passage.