History
Akigawa Station opened on 21 April 1925 on the Itsukaichi Railway as Nishi-Akiru Station (西秋留駅), the eastern counterpart of Higashi-Akiru on the same line. The Itsukaichi Railway was folded into the Nanbu Railway in 1940 and nationalised on 1 April 1944 as a wartime acquisition. Freight handling ceased on 15 April 1961, and on 31 March 1987 the station was renamed Akigawa to match its host city, Akigawa City. JR East took over the following day at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and a barrier-free programme installing two outdoor elevators flanking the elevated walkway was completed in summer 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Originally paired in name with Higashi-Akiru farther up the line, the station took the name of its host city Akigawa in 1987; the city was itself dissolved in a 1995 merger into Akiruno, but the station kept the Akigawa name and continues to serve as that new city's representative station.