History
Maniwa Station opened on 5 July 1910 on the Jōshin Line in the Yoshiimachi-Maniwa area of what is now Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, 9.4 kilometres from the terminus at Takasaki. The stop was upgraded from a halt to a full station on 15 January 1953. It is a kan'i itaku station: staffed during the school commute because Gunma Prefectural Yoshii High School stands nearby, but unmanned on alternating Saturdays, Sundays, and parts of weekday daytime. The station has a single island platform with two tracks and a wooden station building. A freight siding once led from the station to the Self-Defense Forces' Yoshii Camp, and the toilet, long a pit-style facility, was rebuilt as flush-type in 2012.
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
Students at neighbouring Gunma Prefectural Yoshii High School nickname the station, and by extension their own school, "Mani-kō" — a pun on the station name 馬庭 (Maniwa).