History
Gyōda Station opened on 1966-07-01 as a passenger-only JNR station, in response to local requests to add a station on the Takasaki Line where the line passed through the city. The same name had earlier been held by a Chichibu Railway station, which on 1966-06-01 — one month before the opening of the JNR stop — was renamed Gyōda-shi, freeing up the name. The station passed to JR East at the April 1987 privatisation. Automatic ticket gates were installed in February 1995 and Suica IC service began in November 2001. The dedicated ticket office (Midori-no-madoguchi) closed in February 2006 when it was replaced by a Moshimoshi Ticket Machine "Kaeru-kun"; that machine was withdrawn in January 2012, leaving the station without reserved-seat sales until a reserved-seat ticket machine arrived in December 2013. From 2016-03-10 the gates have been left unstaffed in the early morning.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1 October 2013 the departure melodies have used "Yumedensetsu," the signature song of band Stardust Revue, whose frontman Kaname Nemoto is from Gyōda and serves as a city tourism ambassador.