History
Kugeta Station opened on 1 April 1912 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, in what is now the city of Mooka, Tochigi Prefecture. Freight handling was discontinued on 20 February 1980, the station was placed under outside-contract operation five days later, and parcel handling ended in 1984. The station passed to JR East with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 and was transferred to the Mooka Railway on 11 April 1988. A new passing siding was installed in 1990, the present station building was completed in 1996, and the station was destaffed on 2 April 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits hard against the Tochigi–Ibaraki prefectural border immediately to its east, but no exit has ever been built on the Ibaraki side — passengers heading to Chikusei must walk a long way around.