History
Kurogo Station is in the city of Chikusei in Ibaraki Prefecture and is operated by Kantō Railway on its Jōsō Line, 43.6 kilometres from the Toride starting point. It opened in November 1913 with the inauguration of the Jōsō Railroad. The line passed to Jōsō-Tsukuba Railway after a 1945 merger with the original Tsukuba Railway, and to Kantō Railway after a further merger with Kashima Sangū Railway in 1965. The station became unattended on 1 April 1999, and the present compact station building was completed on 22 August 2003. PASMO acceptance began on 14 March 2009. The site has one side and one island platform, with the third track now reserved for maintenance use.
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
Kurogo takes its name from the long-abolished Kurogo village of Makabe County; despite the rural setting, the local Boshijima reservoir near the station is a regional cherry-blossom destination.