Hitachi-Ōta Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 常陸太田駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Yamashita-cho 1043, Hitachiōta-shi, Ibaraki-ken 313-0013 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Suigun Line |
Distance: | 9.5 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
Opened: | April 1, 1899 |
Former: | Ōta (until 1927) |
Passengers: | 1153 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Ibaraki Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Hitachi-Ōta Station |
is a passenger railway station in the city of Hitachiōta, Ibaraki Prefecture, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Hitachi-Ōta Station is a terminus of the Hitachi-Ōta Branch Line of the Suigun Line, and is 9.5 kilometres from the start of the branch line at Kami-Sugaya Station.
The station consists of a single dead-headed side platform. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.
Hitachi-Ōta Station opened on April 1, 1899 as on the Ota Railway. The Ota Railway merged with the Mito Railway on October 21, 1901 and was nationalized on December 1, 1927, and the station was renamed to its present name at that time. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in April 2011.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1153 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]