History
Jūō Station opened on 25 February 1897 as Kawajiri Station, a stop on what would become the Jōban Line in present-day Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture. It passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and was given its current name on 13 March 2004 following the merger that created the town of Jūō. The station has a single elevated island platform reached from the staffed station building by an underground passageway, and lies 156.6 kilometres along the line from the official starting point at Nippori in Tokyo.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.