Hitachi-Aoyagi Station
railway station in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
Hitachi-Aoyagi Station (常陸青柳駅, Hitachi-Aoyagi-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Hitachi-Aoyagi Station is served by the Suigun Line, and is located 1.9 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Mito Station.
Station layout
The station consists of a single island platform with a level crossing. There is no station building and the station is unattended.
History
Hitachi-Aoyagi Station opened on November 16, 1896 as Aoyagi Station (青柳駅) on the Ota Railway. The railway later merged with the Mito Railway on October 21, 1901. The station was renamed to its current name when the Ota Railway was nationalized into the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on December 1, 1927. The station became part of the JR East network following the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.
“Hitachi-Aoyagi Station” enters the record as railway station in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hitachi-Aoyagi, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5871587. Authority coordinates are 36.384, 140.484. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1901, 1927 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hitachi-Aoyagi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.