History
Shin-Ōhirashita Station opened on 1 November 1931 on the Tōbu Nikkō Line. The originally planned site near Hoshinomiya Shrine was abandoned when landowners refused to sell, and the present location was secured instead, with residents privately funding the access road. Patronage was light until Hitachi's Tochigi Works opened nearby, which prompted express stops and turned Ōhira-machi into a Tokyo commuter town. Station numbering arrived on 17 March 2012, designating the station TN-10. The 21 April 2017 timetable removed all through services from Tobu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Kita-Senju and Asakusa, leaving Minami-Kurihashi as the required transfer point for those destinations.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.