History
Daihō Station opened in 1917 as a stop on the Jōsō Railroad in what is now Shimotsuma, Ibaraki Prefecture, and passed to the Kantō Railway through a 1965 merger. Staffing was contracted out in 1967 and withdrawn entirely in 1985, with the original building demolished shortly afterwards and replaced by a platform-only shelter. The current small station building was rebuilt in 2005. In March 2008 a new passing loop was installed, allowing train crossings to resume at the station from that month's timetable change, and the layout was reorganised as one-line-through in March 2010 so rapid services could clear the station at full speed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's broad forecourt is a remnant of the wide approach once needed to handle pilgrim crowds heading to the adjacent Daihō Hachiman-gū shrine festival.