History
Mitsuma Station opened on 1 November 1913 as a stop on the Jōsō Railroad in what is today the city of Jōsō, Ibaraki Prefecture. The operator merged with the original Tsukuba Railway on 30 March 1945 to form Jōsō-Tsukuba Railway, and that company in turn merged with Kashima Sangū Railway on 1 June 1965 to create the present-day Kantō Railway. PASMO IC-card service began on 14 March 2009 and a shared-bicycle programme ("Kantetsu Pedal") launched at the station alongside Mitsukaidō on 1 September 2023. The station has a single island platform serving two tracks across a level crossing; the station building historically doubled as the station-master's residence, and operations were entrusted to that family in the years before destaffing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before Mitsuma was destaffed, the station building doubled as the station-master's home and his family ran day-to-day operations — a rare survival of the live-in station-master practice that was once common on Japan's private feeder railways.