History
Nukada Station opened on 16 November 1897 as a station on the Ota Railway in what is today Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture. The Ota Railway merged into the second Mito Railway on 21 October 1901, and the line was nationalised on 1 December 1927. Freight handling ended on 20 November 1962 and parcel handling on 1 October 1970, at which point the station was destaffed; ticket sales were briefly outsourced to a local shop until that arrangement was dissolved on 1 August 1992. The station building was reduced and refurbished in October 1975, and the station was absorbed into JR East at the 1987 JNR privatisation. It now sits on the Hitachi-Ōta spur line of the Suigun Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A surviving single-track right-of-way north of the station is said to be the remains of an inclined plane once used to haul river gravel from the Kuji River up to the plateau for loading.