History
Shizu Station first appeared as a temporary stop on 20–21 November 1918, set up by the second Mito Railway to handle pilgrims to the nearby Shizu Jinja shrine. It opened permanently as a passenger halt on 1 February 1919, with freight handling added when the Mito Railway was nationalised on 1 December 1927. Freight ended in November 1962 and parcels in October 1970, at which point staffing was withdrawn; a brief period of commissioned ticketing through a local shop began later the same month. The station joined the JR East network on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways and now consists of a single side platform on the Suigun Line, with the ruins of the original second platform still visible.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.