History
Horigome Station traces its origin to 23 June 1889, when the Aso Horse Railway opened a provisional terminus called Yoshimizu here on its line from Kuzū. The horse railway was abolished in 1894 and reopened the next day as the steam-powered Sano Railway, which Tōbu Railway absorbed on 30 March 1912. On 1 February 1915 the original Yoshimizu site was relocated 2.1 km toward Sano and renamed Horigome, with a separate new Yoshimizu Station opening on 1 July. The station was destaffed under a simple commission arrangement on 1 July 1981 and is now fully unattended, with an island platform reached by an underground passage.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Horigome and the present Yoshimizu Station effectively swapped names — the present Horigome occupies the old Yoshimizu site, while the present Yoshimizu was opened 2.1 km away in 1915 after the original was moved here and renamed.