History
Ōmika Station opened on 25 February 1897 on what would become the Jōban Line, sited in the city of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture. From 1928 to 2005 it also served as a terminus of the privately owned Hitachi Electric Railway, which connected industrial Hitachi with neighbouring inland communities. The station was absorbed into the JR East network on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. It now consists of two opposed side platforms linked by a footbridge to a staffed station building with a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office, and it sits 137.4 kilometres along the Jōban Line from Nippori.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.