History
Hōjōmachi Station opened on 3 March 1915 as a station on what is now the third-sector Hōjō Railway, of which it serves as the eastern terminus 13.4 km from the opposing terminus at Ao. The present station building was completed in 2011 about 100 metres from the line’s original site. The layout consists of a single dead-end side platform, and the station is staffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current station building, completed in 2011, was built on a fresh site about 100 metres from where Hōjōmachi originally stood — a comparatively rare case of a Japanese terminus being physically relocated rather than just rebuilt in place.