History
Hitachi-Ōta Station opened on 1 April 1899 as Ōta Station, a stop on the privately owned Ōta Railway. The Ōta Railway merged with the Mito Railway on 21 October 1901, and the combined company was nationalised on 1 December 1927, at which point the station took its present name. It passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and is today the terminus of the Hitachi-Ōta Branch of the Suigun Line. A new station building was completed in April 2011 to replace the earlier structure.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.