History
Kunisada Station opened on 20 November 1889 as a passenger station of the Ryōmō Railway. The line was transferred to Nippon Railway on 1 January 1897 and nationalised on 1 November 1906. Freight handling began in August 1910 and was withdrawn on 1 October 1961. A wooden station building survives. The station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and the platforms were raised in fiscal 2019. It is served only by the Ryōmō Line and is now operated under contract by JR East Station Services, managed from Kiryū.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is named for nearby Kunisada and is the closest railway stop to the grave of the 19th-century outlaw–folk hero Kunisada Chūji.