History
Mamada Station opened on 1 April 1894 as a Nippon Railway station on what became the Tōhoku Main Line (operationally branded the Utsunomiya Line). It is located in Oyama, Tochigi, 73.3 km from Tokyo Station. Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906; the present Tōhoku Main Line designation followed on 12 October 1909. The current bridge-type station building entered service in February 1979, when an east-side entrance was opened to broaden access. The station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Suica has been usable since 18 November 2001, and Shōnan-Shinjuku and Ueno-Tokyo Line through-services serve the station alongside Utsunomiya Line locals.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1899 until 1917, a 2-km horse-drawn freight tramway (the Otome Jinsha Kidō) ran from the Otome wharf on the Omoi River (Omoigawa) to the station, used solely for cargo transfer.