Hitachi-Taga Station (常陸多賀駅) is a ground station in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company and Japan Freight Railway Company run it. It opened on 25 February 1897.
History
Hitachi-Taga Station opened on 25 February 1897 as Shimomago Station (下孫駅) on the Nippon Railway's Iwaki Line. On 1 November 1906, the Nippon Railway was nationalised and the station came under the state railway. On 12 October 1909, a track naming decision made it a station on the Jōban Line (常磐線). On 1 October 1939, the station was renamed Hitachi-Taga Station. On 1 June 1949, the Japanese National Railways was formed. On 1 April 1951, a private siding was connected to the Kokubu plant of Hitachi Seisakusho (日立製作所). In 1955, the current station building was completed.
On 1 February 1984, freight handling ended. On 14 March 1985, parcel handling ended. On 31 March 1987, freight handling resumed. On 1 April 1987, the national railway was split up and privatised. The station became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). On 4 March 1998, automatic ticket gates opened. An elevator was installed in 2004, and on 16 October 2004, Suica became usable.
In February 2011, work began to redevelop the plaza in front of the station. The work was completed on 27 June 2012. The roundabout traffic system was introduced, and a drop-off space for general cars was added. On 1 September 2018, station operations were contracted out.
In March 2020, Hitachi city drew up a plan for the area around Hitachi-Taga Station. In April 2022, a design supervisor was chosen through a proposal process, and Mount Fuji Architects Studio was selected. In 2023, station name signs were decorated with local features for the Ibaraki Destination Campaign, held in autumn. On 17 March 2023, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket window closed. In August 2023, Hitachi city and East Japan Railway Company signed a basic agreement on the free passage and the station building.
On 15 December 2023, a city planning road linked to the area project was changed. On 1 July 2024, Hitachi city drew up the Hitachi-Taga area town-planning grand design. On 15 March 2025, a timetable revision stopped use of the up express passing track. From then on, up local trains wait at the passing track of Hitachi Station.
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