History
Sugaya Station opened on 10 October 1948 on the Ban'etsu East Line in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, and is notable as the highest-elevation station on the line. Freight handling ceased in 1972 and parcel handling in 1984, and the station was destaffed in 1986 although ticketing continued via staff dispatched from Ono-Niimachi. Following the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company network. A new station building, drawing visual references from the nearby Irimizu Limestone Cave and the watershed location of the line, entered service on 8 February 2020, and the station became fully unstaffed in March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.