History
Ryūgasaki Station opened on 14 August 1900 as the terminus of the Ryūgasaki Railroad, in the city of Ryūgasaki, Ibaraki Prefecture. Through corporate mergers the line passed to the Kashima Sangu Railway in 1944 and to the Kantō Railway in 1965. The station's name was rewritten from 龍ケ崎 to 竜ヶ崎 in 1954, following the post-war shift in standard kanji. Freight operations ceased on 1 April 1971, and the station building was rebuilt in 1974, at which time the original bay-platform layout was reduced to a single dead-headed side platform. PASMO IC service began on 14 March 2009. The station remains the terminus of the 4.5 km Ryūgasaki Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's kanji was rewritten from 龍ケ崎 to 竜ヶ崎 in 1954 after JNR system-wide adopted the simpler character recommended by the post-war Japanese-language reform.