History
Haguro Station opened on 1 April 1904 as a Nippon Railway freight stop in present-day Sakuragawa, Ibaraki, on land donated by stonemason Ōnuki Kamekichi. The line was nationalised in 1906 and became part of the Mito Line in 1909, with regular passenger service starting on 20 July 1910. Freight handling ended in 1970, and the station passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatization. Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and a new station building entered service on 25 February 2014. The station became unstaffed on 14 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original site was donated in 1904 by Ōnuki Kamekichi, a local stonemason, reflecting the area's long-standing quarrying industry.