Akagi (Gunma)

Weekday departures: 8/day+

First / last train (weekday): 13:03 / 19:56

Busiest hour: 15:00–16:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Tōbu Kiryū Line: Shin-Kiryu

Akagi Station opened on 10 November 1928 as Shin-Omama Station on the Jomo Electric Railway Line, in the city of Midori, Gunma Prefecture. Tobu Railway followed with its own station on the Kiryu Line on 18 March 1932. Both stations were renamed Akagi on 1 November 1958, taking the name from the Akagi mountain whose climbing railway had begun service the previous year (the line itself was abandoned in 1968). Freight handling ended in September 1996. After service in the old station building closed on 24 July 2002, a new shared station building opened on 16 January 2003. From 17 March 2012, Akagi was designated TI-57 in the Tobu numbering system.

Although the station bears the name of Mount Akagi, no scheduled bus service from the station to Akagi today reaches the mountain. The name was kept from an early bus-link plan that has since been replaced by services running from Maebashi.