History
Sano Station is a junction on the Ryōmō Line of JR East and the Tobu Sano Line, numbered TI-34. The Ryōmō-side station opened on 22 May 1888 as a Ryōmō Railway station; the parallel Aso Horse Tramway opened a separate Sano station nearby in 1889. After conversion of the tramway to the Sano Railway in 1894 and acquisition by Tobu in 1912, the two lines were eventually integrated and the present building completed in 2003 as a bridge-type structure with the JR and Tobu fare gates separated. Tobu added automatic gates in March 2014. The 1928 Western-style wooden station building, replaced in 2003, had been listed among the Kanto Region's Top 100 stations in 1999.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The old Showa-era wooden Western-style station building was selected for the Kanto Region's Top 100 Stations in 1999, four years before it was demolished in the 2003 rebuild.