History
Haramukō Station opened on 31 December 1912 as a stop on the Ashio Railway, which served Japan's largest copper mine at Ashio. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1918, becoming part of JNR's Ashio Line, with freight handling withdrawn from this station in 1959 and parcel service in March 1960; staff were removed in December the same year. At the 1 April 1987 privatisation it briefly passed to JR East before the line was transferred to the third-sector operator Watarase Keikoku Railway on 29 March 1989. The station, designated WK14, is now an unstaffed single-platform halt close to the Watarase River.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Haramukō is the trailhead station for hikers heading up Mount Kōshin and Mount Bizen-tate; the station building's toilet is famously housed in a structure shaped like a stack of logs.