History
Nakatsuma Station opened on 1 November 1913 on the Jōsō Railroad in what is today the city of Jōsō in Ibaraki Prefecture. The operator eventually merged with Kashima Sangū Railway in 1965 to form today's Kantō Railway. The stop sits 20.9 km from the line's southern terminus at Toride and consists of two opposed side platforms linked to the station building by a level crossing; the station building also doubled as the station-master's private residence. In fiscal 2017 daily boardings averaged 133, and the small community around Chiyoda Danchi public housing is the principal source of riders.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Like its near-namesake Mitsuma on the same Jōsō Line, Nakatsuma's station building doubled as the station-master's private home — a vestige of the early-twentieth-century practice of staffing small rural stops with the family already living on site.