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Myokaku Station
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1934
3月24日
The station opened simultaneously with the opening of the Japanese National Railways Hachiko Line between Misato Station and Ogawamachi Station, starting to handle passengers and freight, and was named after its location in Myōkaku Village at the time.
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国鉄八高線 越生駅 - 小川町駅間の開通と同時に開業。旅客・貨物の取扱を開始。開業時は所在地が明覚村であったため現駅名となった。
1961
9月1日
Freight handling was abolished.
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貨物取扱廃止。
1974
4月5日
Freight handling was abolished.
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貨物の取扱を廃止。
1987
4月1日
With the privatization of JNR, it became a JR East station.
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国鉄分割民営化により、JR東日本の駅となる。
1988
11月9日
A fire broke out around 3 am and the station building was completely burned down.
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午前3時ごろ出火し、駅舎が全焼。
1989
9月18日
In 1989, the current station building was completed, constructed using wood from the former Tsukigawa Village, and it won the Good Design Award in 1995.
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（平成元年）：現在の駅舎が完成。駅舎は旧・都幾川村の木を使用して建築された。1995年に駅舎がグッドデザイン賞受賞。
1997
It became a station selected in the first "Kanto's 100 Selected Stations", with the selection reason being "a Canadian-style log house station made with locally produced logs that match the surrounding mountains".
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「関東の駅百選」第1回選定駅になる。選定理由は「地元産の丸太で造り、周辺の山とマッチしたカナダ風ログハウスの駅」。
2002
2月8日
The IC card Suica service began operation.
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ICカードSuica供用開始。
2013
11月1日
It became an unmanned station.
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無人駅化。
2021
4月1日
The Tokigawa Town Tourism Association's office moved into the station building, which was renovated and the "Station Front Information Center Kokokara" was opened.
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ときがわ町観光協会の事務所が駅舎内に移転し、駅舎をリニューアルして「駅前案内所ここから」が開設された。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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