History
Yotsukura Station opened on August 29, 1897 as a Nippon Railway general-traffic station, became part of the Jōban Line under the 1909 line-name reform, and was nationalized in 1906. A Sumitomo Cement (formerly Iwaki Cement) private siding fed the works just west of the station from 1908; the siding was abolished in 1985 and the works closed in September 1986. The double-tracking between Kusano and Yotsukura was completed on 22 July 1967. The station passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatization. Services were suspended from 11 March to 17 April 2011 after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. From 14 March 2020 the station was incorporated into the Tokyo metropolitan area with Suica acceptance, and a renewed west entrance opened on 26 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name is written 四ツ倉 (Yotsukura) but the surrounding town is Yotsukura-machi (四倉町) without the small "tsu," and the nearby Joban Expressway parking area also uses the town's spelling.