History
Oyama Station opened on 16 July 1885 on the line that would become the Tōhoku Main Line, serving Oyama in Tochigi Prefecture. It became a junction with the opening of the Ryōmō Line on 22 May 1888 and the Mito Line on 16 January 1889, anchoring the rail network of southwestern Tochigi. Tōhoku Shinkansen service began on 23 June 1982, giving the city a high-speed link to Tokyo and Sendai. Today the station is operated by JR East as the largest terminal in Tochigi Prefecture after Utsunomiya, and serves as a freight depot for JR Freight in addition to the Shinkansen, the Utsunomiya, Shōnan-Shinjuku, Mito and Ryōmō Lines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Oyama Station's local platforms are numbered 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16; platforms 2, 3, 7, 11 and 14 do not exist, a legacy of repeated track-layout changes since the Shinkansen opened in 1982.