History
Tsukioka Station opened on 1912-09-02 as Tenno-Shinden Station (天王新田駅) on the Shin'etsu Line branch between Niitsu and Shibata, 17.8 kilometres from Niitsu. The branch passed through a succession of names — becoming the Murakami Line in 1914, then absorbed into the Uetsu Line in 1924, then renamed Uetsu Main Line in 1925. The station took its present name Tsukioka on 1950-09-01. Parcel handling was lifted in 1969, freight ended in 1972, and the station was destaffed on 1985-03-14. It passed to JR East with the JNR breakup of 1987-04-01 and accepted Suica from 2008-03-15. The station has one island platform with only one side now in use.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Despite its name, Tsukioka Onsen is not within walking distance — the station sits about ten minutes by bus or taxi from the hot-spring district that gave it its modern name.