History
Kurodahara Station opened on 1 September 1891 as a Nippon Railway stop in what is now Nasu town, Tochigi Prefecture. The original platform stood near today's Nasu town hall, and the wooden building later served as the local folklore museum until demolition in 2000. Nippon Railway was nationalised in November 1906, and the line was designated the Tōhoku Main Line in 1909. In March 1920 a route realignment between Kuroiso and Kurodahara moved the station to its current location, and the present station building was completed in May 1940. Freight ended in 1975, baggage in 1984. It joined JR East at the 1987 privatisation, and full destaffing is scheduled for 1 December 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station appears in the prewar Ministry of Railways documentary film Tetsurin as an example of a single-track stop using staff-token block working; the tablet machines on screen are labelled "Takaku" and the old name "Shimotsuke-Toyohara" (today's Toyohara).