Ōmika Station

Ōmika Station (大甕駅, Ōmika-eki) is a JR East railway station located in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Ōmika Station 大甕駅
Ōmika Station entrance, April 29th 2019
Location	Ōmika 2-23-10, Hitachi, Ibaraki （茨城県日立市大みか町二丁目23-10） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Jōban Line
History
Opened	1897
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013)	9,518 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Tōkai (limited service) toward Shinagawa Hitachi (limited service) Hitachi-Taga (limited service) toward Sendai Tōkai toward Shinagawa Tokiwa Hitachi-Taga toward Takahagi Jōban Line Local-Futsuu Hitachi-Taga toward Sendai

Lines

Ōmika Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 137.4 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori Station.

Station layout

Ōmika Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by an overhead passageway. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Joban Line (JU Ueno-Tokyo Line)	for Katsuta, Mito, Tomobe, Ishioka, Tsuchiura, Ueno, Tokyo and Shinagawa
	■ Mito Line	for Mito, Tomobe, Kasama, Shimodate, and Oyama
2	■ Jōban Line	for Hitachi, Takahagi, Isohara, Iwaki, Haranomachi and Sendai

History

Omika station at September 2011

Ōmika Station was opened on 25 February 1897. The Hitachi Electric Railway operated to this station from 1928 to 2005. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. In 2016, construction was begun on a new station building, which is expected to be complete by the end of March 2019.

Surrounding area

• Port of Ibaraki
• Omika Post Office
• Hitachi Seisakusho
• Japan National Route 6
• Japan National Route 245
• Ibaraki Christian University

External links

• Station information JR East Station Information (in Japanese)