History
Hasuda Station opened on 16 July 1885 as a stop on the Nippon Railway line between Ōmiya and Utsunomiya, making it one of the oldest stations on what is now the Tōhoku Main Line. It was nationalised in 1906, became part of the formally named Tōhoku Main Line in 1909, and lost freight handling in 1972 and parcel handling in 1985. A third-generation overhead station building replaced its predecessor on 2 October 1972, and the station passed to JR East when Japanese National Railways was broken up on 1 April 1987. Suica began operating here on 18 November 2001, and the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 11 October 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The kanji "蓮" in Hasuda Station's name retains a two-dot radical that the city of Hasuda dropped from its own official spelling in 2011; the railway kept the older form on the grounds that changing it would be too costly.