History
Miyahara Station opened on 15 July 1948 on the Takasaki Line, occupying the site of the former Kamonomiya signal post (established 1908 and abolished in January 1947). The wooden station building was replaced by the present overhead structure in 1966. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, operation passed to JR East. A Midori no Madoguchi opened in December 1986 and Suica use began on 18 November 2001, followed by a barrier-free station-building renovation in 2003 that created the adjoining station retail block. The window office closed on 30 June 2017, and early-morning staffed operation ended in March 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Within Saitama City, Miyahara is the only JR East station that belongs to JR East's Takasaki Branch rather than its Ōmiya Branch.