History
Kairakuen Station first opened on 2 February 1925 as Kōenshita Temporary Halt on the Ministry of Railways Jōban Line in present-day Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. It was renamed Kairakuen Halt on 1 February 1967, restyled an Imperial-Halt-class temporary stop in October 1969, and converted to a formal seasonal station with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. Simplified Suica ticket-gate equipment was installed on 20 February 2013, and during a February 2016 platform-raising project the platform height was lifted to mitigate flooding from neighbouring Lake Senba. Operating kilometres were finally assigned to the station on 11 February 2023, allowing tickets to be sold to and from Kairakuen for the first time.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station operates only during the plum-blossom season in February and March, and only down-direction trains stop — the up platform was never built, so passengers heading toward Tokyo from Kairakuen must first ride to Mito Station and reverse direction.