History
Minami-Moriya Station opened on 15 November 1960 as a Jōsō-Tsukuba Railway station in what was then the town of Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, initially with one island platform and two tracks and a level crossing on the Toride side. It became a Kantō Railway station on 1 June 1965 with the merger that formed the present operator. The Terahara-to-Minami-Moriya section was double-tracked on 8 December 1982 and the Minami-Moriya-to-Shin-Moriya section on 31 May 1983. In 1987 the station was relocated slightly toward Shimodate to coincide with the Housing and Urban Development Corporation's opening of the surrounding Jōsō New Town district. PASMO IC-card use began on 14 March 2009, and the station became fully unstaffed on 16 February 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.