History
Okamoto Station opened on 25 February 1897 on what is now the Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line), in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi. It came under the control of JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The station has two island platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge, although only one face of each island is in use; it remains staffed. Trains running through services from the Karasuyama Line beyond its official terminus at Hōshakuji also stop here. In fiscal 2019 it served an average of 2,704 boarding passengers per day, making it one of the busier mid-route stations on the Utsunomiya Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.