History
Hitachi-Ōmiya Station opened on 23 October 1918 as a station of the second Mito Railway. The Daigun Line from the station to Yamagatajuku opened on 1 December 1922, and the Mito Railway itself was nationalised on 1 December 1927. Baggage handling ended on 1 October 1982 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station joined JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The staffed Midori no Madoguchi was replaced by a "Moshimoshi Kaeru-kun" video ticket machine on 7 March 2006; that in turn was retired on 16 February 2012, replaced by a reserved-seat ticket machine the next day. Suica became usable from 1 April 2014, and from that date the station was managed by JR East Mito Railway Services and brought under the Hitachi-Daigo station manager. October 2019's Typhoon Hagibis washed out the Sixth Kujigawa Bridge between Fukuroda and Hitachi-Daigo, severing the entire line; service was restored between Mito and Hitachi-Ōmiya on 15 October 2019, a substitute bus to Hitachi-Daigo on 16 October, and direct rail service to Saigane on 1 November. A complete rebuild of the station — with a roof design echoing the historic "Nishi-Shioko Mawari-Butai" kabuki stage — broke ground in late March 2024; partial use of the new west building began on 1 February 2025, and the east-west pedestrian concourse opened on 24 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The new station building and east-west concourse are designed around a roof motif inspired by the "Nishi-Shioko Mawari-Butai," a folding kabuki stage handed down in the city's Nishi-Shioko district.