History
Shiraoka Station opened on 11 February 1910 in what is now the city of Shiraoka, Saitama, after being upgraded from a signal post that had operated since May 1908. The Imperial Railway Agency had drawn complaints from surrounding villages that the Tohoku Main Line, opened between Omiya and Utsunomiya in July 1885, lacked a stop between Hasuda and Kuki, prompting a 1907 joint petition for the new station. The footbridge station building was completed in November 1976, freight and parcel handling ceased in February 1984, and the station became part of JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica IC cards became usable from November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The signal post took its name from the nearby village of Shiraoka and the Shiraoka Hachiman Shrine rather than from its actual host hamlet of Koguki, chosen to avoid confusion with neighbouring Kuki Station.