History
Tada Station is an unstaffed two-platform station on the Tōbu Sano Line at Tada-machi, Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, 19.3 km from the line's terminus at Tatebayashi, with station number TI 38. The original Aso Horse-Drawn Tramway opened a halt here in 1889, and the present railway station opened on 20 March 1894 as a Sano Railway station — a monument commemorating the event stands in front of the building. On 30 March 1912 the line was absorbed by Tōbu Railway and became the Sano Line. The station was staffed-down to simple commissioned sale on 17 August 1974, the simple commission was later discontinued and the station became completely unstaffed, and the wooden station building was replaced by a new structure in October 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
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Tada has notably wide spacing between its two side platforms because a centre track once served the heavy limestone-freight traffic the area generated; that middle track has long since been removed but the gap remains visible. With 143 passengers per day in fiscal 2025, it is the second-least-used station on the Tōbu Sano Line after Tajima.