History
Asahi Station opened on 1 June 1897 as Asahichō Station on the Sōbu Railway, handling both passenger and freight traffic on the route between Honjo and Chōshi. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1907, placing the stop under the Imperial Railway Agency and later the Japanese National Railways. Following the city of Asahi's 1954 incorporation, the station was renamed Asahi on 1 October 1959, and the present station building was completed in 1966. Scheduled freight handling ended on 1 July 1973, and the Shiosai limited express began stopping there in March 1975. The stop passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and Suica acceptance arrived in March 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because JR Shikoku operates a Dosan Line station of the same name in Kōchi, JR East ticket-machine output prefixes this stop with "(総)" to distinguish the two.