History
Mito Station opened on 16 January 1889 as the terminus of the first-generation Mito Railway. The Ōta Railway (today's Suigun Line) added a platform on 16 November 1897. The depot was nationalised in 1906 and absorbed into the Jōban Line in 1909. Its third station building burned down on 20 May 1914, and the fourth was destroyed by air raid on 2 August 1945. A reinforced-concrete fifth building opened in 1956. The current elevated station, the sixth, entered service on 1 July 1984. JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the EXCEL station building had already opened on 24 March 1985.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During the November 1929 Imperial Special Grand Manoeuvres held across Ibaraki, Mito Station hosted repeated arrivals and departures of the imperial train carrying Emperor Shōwa between 14 and 21 November.