History
Ojika-Kōgen Station opened on 9 October 1986 on the third-sector Yagan Railway's Aizu-Kinugawa Line, in what is now Nikkō, Tochigi. It was built in anticipation of a planned ski resort under the Aizu Fresh Resort scheme, but no resort or settlement ever materialised around the platform, which sits in a cutting at 759.7 metres elevation. The Aizu Mount Express and other limited-stop services were withdrawn in the 2017 timetable revision, and the new Revaty Aizu limited express ceased calling here in March 2022, leaving only a handful of local trains. Today it is one of Japan's better-known "secret" stations, with a notebook in the waiting room for visitors to record their pilgrimages.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In fiscal 2016 the station recorded an annual boarding total of just 352 passengers — under one per day — and a six-hour midday gap between trains is now routine.