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Kawai Station (河合駅, Kawai-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Hitachiōta, Ibaraki Prefecture, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Kawai Station is served by the Hitachi-Ōta Spur Line of the Suigun Line, and is located 6.7 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the spur line at Kami-Sugaya Station.

Station layout

The station consists of a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. There is no station building, and the station is unattended.

History

Kawai Station opened on September 7, 1898 as a station on the Ota Railway. The Ota Railway merged with the Mito Railway on October 21, 1901 and was nationalized on December 1, 1927. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.