History
Jōshū-Niiya Station, on the Jōshin Line in the town of Kanra in Gunma Prefecture, is operated by Jōshin Dentetsu and lies 14.6 kilometres from the Takasaki terminus. It opened on 25 July 1915 as Niiya Stop on the Ueno Railway and was renamed to its present form on 17 December 1921 when the operator became Jōshū Electric Railway. The stop was originally unstaffed, with ticket sales handled by a private household until electrification in 1924. The station became fully unstaffed again in October 2004. A new wooden station building of about 35 square metres opened on 26 August 2022 after a relocation prompted by a prefectural road widening.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The stream flowing along the platform's Takasaki end is named the Sanzu River, after the mythological river the dead cross in Japanese Buddhist tradition; a small shrine to the Sanzu's coin-collecting hag Datsueba stands beside the upstream bridge.