History
Jōshū-Ichinomiya Station serves the city of Tomioka in Gunma Prefecture and is operated by Jōshin Dentetsu on its Jōshin Line, 23.1 kilometres from the Takasaki terminus. It opened on 7 July 1897 as Ichinomiya Station and was renamed to its present form on 17 December 1921. The station building was refurbished in 1934 ahead of an imperial visit by Emperor Shōwa, who used it during army manoeuvres and a visit to the nearby Nukisaki Jinja, the historic ichinomiya of former Kōzuke Province. The station has an island platform with two tracks, a wooden station building and consignment staffing.
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
The 1934 refit of the station building was prompted by Emperor Shōwa's visit to the adjacent Nukisaki Jinja, the historic first-rank shrine of old Kōzuke Province, during that year's grand army manoeuvres.