History
Shin-Moriya Station opened on 27 March 1982, timed to the launch of a Housing and Urban Development Corporation new town on the station's west side. Operated by the private Kantō Railway on the Jōsō Line between Toride and Shimodate, it was double-tracked southward to Minami-Moriya in May 1983 and northward to Mitsukaidō in November 1984. A station library opened on the third floor on 29 January 1991 and helped earn the station a 1997 Kantō-no-Eki-Hyakusen selection, but the library closed on 29 September 2004. PASMO compatibility began on 14 March 2009, and from 1 September 2010 the station has been unstaffed during daytime hours (roughly 10:00–16:00).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In May 2020 Kantō Railway installed an internal training facility called the "Pledge Room" inside Shin-Moriya Station, with photo panels documenting the cause and lessons of the 1992 Toride Station derailment — a permanent reminder for new staff.