History
Agata Station opened on 1 May 1928 on the Tobu Isesaki Line. It became unstaffed and was placed under simplified outsourcing on 1 April 1974. With the timetable revision of 18 March 2006, semi-express services were renamed and the number of trains was sharply reduced; daytime through-services to Asakusa disappeared, and daytime operation became local trains between Kuki and Tatebayashi or Ōta. Sub-express services additionally began to call at Agata. From 17 March 2012 station numbering was applied to all Tobu lines and Agata became TI-12. On 1 April 2025 the station gained a secondary name, "ThreeBond-mae" (until March 2028), after ThreeBond bought the naming rights as the operator of the ThreeBond Fine Chemical Tochigi plant in the adjacent Agata-South Industrial Park.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Agata Station's secondary name "ThreeBond-mae" — added from 1 April 2025 under a naming-rights deal valid until March 2028 — reflects the station's proximity to ThreeBond Fine Chemical's Tochigi plant in the Agata-South Industrial Park.