History
Nogi Station opened on 16 February 1963 as a new Japanese National Railways station on the Tōhoku Main Line, served on the Utsunomiya Line of present-day JR East. It passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation, gained automatic ticket gates in December 1995 and Suica acceptance in November 2001, and saw its Midori no Madoguchi staffed window close in March 2007. Shōnan-Shinjuku Line through-services began in December 2001 and Ueno-Tokyo Line through-services to the Tōkaidō Line began with the timetable revision on 14 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nogi is Tochigi Prefecture's southernmost station, and a covered narrow space between the up and down tracks on the Koga side marks where a freight-train passing loop once stood.