History
Minami-Utsunomiya Station opened on 17 April 1932 as Yakyujomae Station on the Tobu Utsunomiya Line, taking its name from the nearby Utsunomiya Permanent Baseball Stadium that operated until 1960. The station was renamed to its present form on 15 December 1933. Freight operations were transferred here from Tobu-Utsunomiya in 1959. From 17 March 2012 the station was numbered TN-39, and in May 2018 its single-storey wooden depot was recognised as a Japan Heritage component within Utsunomiya's Oya-stone story. A renovation programme started in March 2020 and finished by November of the same year, preserving the Art Deco trim.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The wooden depot, built in 1932, uses Oya stone in its foundation and walls and features Art Deco trim including gable boards modelled on a baseball bat and ball.