History
Nikkō Station opened on 1 August 1890 as the terminus of a branch line built by the private Nippon Railway. The opening ceremony was attended by Prince Komatsu Akihito. Nationalised on 1 November 1906, the line became part of the Nikkō Line under the 1909 line-naming reform. The current second-generation Neo-Renaissance half-timber wooden station building was completed in August 1912; in 2012 research by a local historian identified the designer as Akashi Torao, then a technical assistant at the Railway Bureau. Electrification was completed on 22 September 1959. After privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East, and the building was selected for the Kantō Station Hundred in 1997. A renovation undertaken between 2016 and March 2017 prepared the station for the new Train Suite Shiki-shima service. The station serves Nikkō City in Tochigi Prefecture, 40.5 kilometres from Utsunomiya.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building's interior preserves a Royal Waiting Room (kihinshitsu) of about 40 square metres fitted with a chandelier and a marble fireplace; on the upper floor, a former first-class waiting room called the White Room is now open as a station gallery.