History
Kokinu Station opened on 1 November 1913 with the inauguration of the Jōsō Railroad in what is now Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki Prefecture. The Jōsō Railroad merged with the original Tsukuba Railway on 30 March 1945 to form the Jōsō-Tsukuba Railway, and a further merger with the Kashima Sangū Railway on 1 June 1965 created today's Kantō Railway. The station building was rebuilt in 1963 and again on 27 April 1990 with the cooperation of the Housing and Urban Development Corporation. The Shin-Moriya–Mitsukaidō section, including Kokinu, was double-tracked on 31 May 1983. PASMO IC card use began on 14 March 2009, and the station was made fully unattended on 16 February 2013. Platforms were extended for four-car trains in 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Only two railway stations in Japan have names ending in the kana "nu" — Kokinu on the Kantō Railway and Kōnu on JR West.