History
Momiyama Station opened on 1 April 1929 on the Tobu Nikko Line, when the line was through-extended from what is now Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen to Shin-Kanuma, and stands in Momiyama-machi in the city of Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, 64.2 km from the line's starting point. Operated by the private Tobu Railway, the station became unstaffed on 1 September 1973 under a simplified-commission arrangement, and on 17 March 2012 it was assigned the station number TN-17 in Tobu's system-wide numbering rollout. Two side platforms serve two tracks, connected to the station building on the Asakusa-bound side by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A few minutes east of the station stands Ubugami Shrine, host to the annual "Crying Sumo" (naki-zumō) ritual on a September Sunday — registered as a Selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan, where babies are encouraged to cry by sumo wrestlers.