History
Jimbohara Station opened on 15 November 1897 as a Nippon Railway station, and is today JR East's Takasaki Line stop in Kamisato, Saitama, 59.7 km from Ōmiya. Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and the present "Takasaki Line" name was assigned on 12 October 1909. With JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation the station passed to JR East. A second platform was added on 25 September 1968 to provide a passing loop; the present layout is a single side platform plus an island serving three tracks. Suica became available on 18 November 2001, automatic gates were activated on 1 February 2005, and the station became fully agency-operated on 1 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kamisato Town has reportedly been considering renaming the station from "Jimbohara" to "Kamisato" to give the town greater public visibility — a change still under study alongside system-upgrade and other rename projects.