History
Ōkuwa Station opened on 2 January 1917 as a station of Shimotsuke Kidō. The line's operator became Shimotsuke Denki Tetsudō (Shimotsuke Electric Railway) on 6 June 1921 and was bought by the Tōbu Railway on 1 May 1943. The station was destaffed (placed under simple commission) on 1 September 1973. Limited-express "Liberty Kinu" and "Liberty Aizu" stops were added on 21 April 2017 but withdrawn on 12 March 2022. The simple-commission arrangement was ended at an unspecified date in 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On 27 October 2017 the station's platform was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property (建造物) — "Tōbu Railway Ōkuwa Station Platform" — for its distinctive embankment construction of cobbled stone-faced fill, valued as a surviving artefact of the Kinugawa Line's modernisation.