History
Kaneage Station opened on 17 July 1928 as a station on the privately operated Minato Railway in what is now the city of Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture. It passed to Ibaraki Kōtsū through the wartime transport consolidation of 1 August 1944, and then to the third-sector operator Hitachinaka Seaside Railway on 1 April 2008. Carload-freight and parcel handling ended in 1981, and the line's passing siding was removed in the same year. New passing-loop infrastructure was rebuilt between January and March 2010, with the relocated up platform entering service on 19 March 2010 and the new down track on 26 June 2010 — restoring scheduled passing operation from the 1 September 2010 timetable revision.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kaneage's passing siding was removed in 1981 along with freight handling, but the railway re-laid the loop in 2010 to support an extra Katsuta-to-Nakaminato shuttle service — making it one of the few infrastructural revivals on the Minato Line.