History
The station opened on 15 April 1923 as Jukuda Station, taking the name of the local Jukuda village, but the kanji was changed to its present form on 1 April 1925 to avoid confusion with Atsuta Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1975, dedicated-siding freight was reintroduced briefly from 1 July 1979, parcel handling stopped on 1 February 1984 and the dedicated-siding freight ended for good on 14 March 1985. The station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. It was incorporated into JR East's Tokyo Suburban Area on 14 March 2009, became fully unstaffed on 1 June 2011 (ticket counter closed the previous day, with Hōshakuji becoming the managing station), and the present station building was brought into use on 15 March 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Niita shares its kanji 仁井田 with another station of the same reading on the JR Shikoku Dosan Line in Kōchi, so tickets issued for the Karasuyama Line station are printed (烏)仁井田 to distinguish them. The station was originally a crossing station but the loop has been removed, leaving a single side platform.