Mato

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Matō Station opened on 1 November 1914 as a station of the Ashio Railway, between Ashio Station and the freight terminal at Ashio-Honzan, and was nationalised on 1 June 1918. Freight and parcel services were withdrawn on 1 October 1970, when the station also became unstaffed and its switchback facilities were removed. With the 1987 privatisation it briefly came under JR East before passing to the third-sector Watarase Keikoku Railway on 29 March 1989, when the freight-only spur to Ashio-Honzan was closed. A new wooden station building was completed in 1994, and the station serves as the terminus of the Watarase Keikoku Line.

Travel writer Shunzō Miyawaki completed his ride of every JNR line at Matō on 28 May 1977; the waiting room hosts a small exhibit on his book Jikokuhyō 2-man Kiro.