History
Kitamoto Station traces its origins to the Hon-juku signal post opened on 16 August 1918 on the Takasaki Line. The post was promoted to a signal station in April 1922 and elevated to a full passenger stop on 1 August 1928 as Kitamotojuku Station. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and the present footbridge station building was completed in October 1977. The stop was renamed Kitamoto Station on 20 March 1961 to match the surrounding town name. Operation passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at privatisation, automatic ticket gates began service in March 1995, and Suica IC cards became usable from 18 November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Just months after the signal post became a full signal station, an earthquake-evacuation special carrying refugees from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake derailed and overturned on its grounds.