History
Uchihara Station opened on 16 January 1889 as a station of the Mito Railway. Ownership passed to Nippon Railway on 1 March 1892 and was nationalised in 1906; the route became part of the Jōban Line in 1909. JR East and JR Freight took over from JNR on 1 April 1987. Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001. A long-running railway-spur traffic of cement deliveries from Onahama Station to a Taiheiyo Cement depot just west of Uchihara ended on 7 March 2000, after which freight schedules were dropped. North-side plaza redevelopment opened on 2 April 2013, and a new north–south free passage with overhead station building entered service on 26 November 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.