Hoshakuji Station (宝積寺駅) is in Takanezawa, Tochigi Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) run it, on the Karasuyama Line and the Utsunomiya Line. It opened on 21 October 1899.
History
The station opened on 21 October 1899 as a station of the Nippon Railway. On 1 November 1906 the railways were nationalised under the Railway Nationalisation Act. On 12 October 1909 the station became part of the Tōhoku Main Line. On 15 April 1923 the Karasuyama Line opened between this station and Karasuyama.
The Utsunomiya Army Aviation Arsenal line was completed on 1 November 1942, and trains began running on it on 6 November 1942. The line was abolished on 1 November 1945.
Maruzen Oil's private line ended and parcel handling was abolished on 1 February 1984. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East and JR Freight. Suica became usable on 16 October 2004. A private line that had carried cement to a Taiheiyō Cement service station on the north side of the station was later switched to truck transport and abolished. Freight train service ended on 18 March 2006.
The elevated station building came into use on 28 October 2007, and the east exit began operating. A reserved-seat ticket machine started on 1 November 2007. The west exit began normal use in March 2008. On 30 September 2008 the station received an encouragement award in the architecture category of the Brunel Award, an international competition for railway design.
In December 2019 an event marked the station's anniversary of opening. On 12 March 2022 the timetable was revised. Trains between Kuroiso and Utsunomiya on the Utsunomiya Line became one-person operated trains of a newer type, and Green car service through the station ended. The number of cars that run through here was limited.
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