History
Ushiku Station opened on 25 December 1896 as a stop on the Nippon Railway, becoming part of the Imperial Government Railways' Jōban Line at nationalisation in 1906. Freight handling ended in 1971, parcel service in February 1984, and the present overhead station building was completed in July 1984. The station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Suica went into service on 18 November 2001, and elevators to both platforms opened on 20 March 2008. Operations were placed under business contract on 1 November 2020, and a 12 March 2022 timetable change cut limited-express stops to seven southbound and four northbound trains per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since December 2007, platform 1 at Ushiku has departed to "Green Green" — evoking the lakeside of Lake Ushiku — while platform 2 plays "Aux Champs-Élysées" in a nod to the nearby Ushiku Chateau, Japan's oldest commercial winery.