History
Suetsugi Station opened on 1 June 1947 as a Ministry of Transport station on the Jōban Line, 227.6 km from the line's southern terminus at Nippori. Freight handling ceased in 1961 and parcel service in 1975. The station was unstaffed in 1977 under simplified entrustment, and became fully unstaffed in October 1993. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East. Train service was suspended from 11 March 2011 after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; substitute bus operation began in August and train service was restored on 10 October that year. The station joined the Tokyo suburban Suica zone on 14 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building survived the 2011 disaster and now incorporates a raised wooden deck on the platform side so passengers can sit and watch the Pacific from above the rebuilt seawall.