Kami-Sugaya Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 上菅谷駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Sugaya 4496, Naka-shi, Ibaraki-ken 311-0105 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Suigun Line |
Distance: | 10.1 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side + 1 island platform |
Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
Opened: | November 16, 1896 |
Passengers: | 734 |
Pass Year: | FY2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Ibaraki Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Kami-Sugaya Station |
is a junction passenger railway station in the city of Naka, Ibaraki, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Kami-Sugaya Station is served by the Suigun Line, and is located 10.1 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Mito Station. It is also the terminus for the Hitachi-Ōta spur line on the Suigun Line, connecting Mito with Hitachiōta.
The station consists of one side platform and one island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Kami-Sugaya Station opened on November 16, 1896 as a station on the Ota Railway. The Ota Railway merged with the Mito Railway on October 21, 1901 and was nationalized on December 1, 1927. 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 January 2014.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 734 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]