History
Nozaki Station opened on 25 February 1897 on the Nippon Railway, with its station building completed the year before in 1896. The Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and the line was redesignated as the Tōhoku Main Line on 12 October 1909. A footbridge was added in December 1964, freight and parcels ended on 1 February 1984, and the station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica was introduced on 16 October 2004, the Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 29 February 2008, and the platforms were raised in two stages, finishing on 31 March 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because the JR West Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line) in Daitō, Osaka also has a Nozaki Station, tickets issued from this Tochigi Nozaki are stamped "(北) 野崎" — the "(北)" indicating the Northern (Tōhoku-side) station.