赤塚駅

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1894 1月4日

It opened as a station on the Nippon Railway.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

日本鉄道の駅として開業。

1906 11月1日

Nippon Railway was nationalized and became part of the government railway.

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日本鉄道が国有化され、官設鉄道の所属となる。

1909 10月12日

The line came under the Jōban Line due to the designation of line names.

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線路名称制定により常磐線の所属となる。

1926 10月24日

The Ibaraki Railway Line, later the Ibaraki Transportation Ibaraki Line, opened.

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茨城鉄道線（後の茨城交通茨城線）が開通。

1949 6月1日

Japanese National Railways was established.

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日本国有鉄道が発足。

1971 2月11日

In 1971, the Ibaraki Line was abolished.

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1971年：茨城線が廃止。

1985 3月14日

Freight handling was abolished.

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荷物扱い廃止。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

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国鉄分割民営化により、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）・日本貨物鉄道（JR貨物）の駅となる。

1990 7月

A dedicated line to the Nikkan Flour Milling and Showa Sangyo Mito factory, which was located south of the station, was formerly in operation, with grain transport trains using the HoKi 2200 form running from Okawa Station, but was abolished due to the factory's closure at the end of 1990.

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かつて駅南側に広がっていた日清製粉、昭和産業水戸工場へ専用線が続いていた。大川駅からホキ2200形を使用する穀物輸送列車が運行されていたが、1990年末に工場が閉鎖されたため廃止された。

1991 4月1日

Freight train service was abolished.

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貨物列車の設定廃止。

1998 10月9日

Work began on rebuilding the station building.

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駅舎改築工事に着手。

1999 4月1日

The free passage was completed.

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自由通路が完成。

1999 11月21日

The temporary use of the elevated station building began.

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橋上駅舎の仮使用開始。

2000 3月24日

The new station building and station plaza among other facilities began full operation.

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新駅舎・駅前広場など全面供用開始。

2000 10月20日

The train-linked escalator, which changes its direction of operation to match train arrivals and departures, began operating.

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列車が発着に合わせて運転方向が変わる列車連動型エスカレーターの供用開始。

2001 11月18日

The IC card Suica service began operation.

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ICカードSuica供用開始。

2005 12月10日

The Japanese National Railways station was abolished.

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日本貨物鉄道の駅が廃止。

2015 4月1日

It becomes an outsourced station with JR Mito Railway Service commissioned to handle station operations.

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JR水戸鉄道サービスが駅業務を受託する業務委託駅となる。

2016 7月1日

Station operations were transferred to JR East Station Service.

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駅業務受託がJR東日本ステーションサービスへ移管。

2024 2月29日

The Midori no Madoguchi service ended operations.

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みどりの窓口の営業を終了。

Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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