Karibasawa Station was opened on January 4, 1894 as a station on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906.
Karibasawa Station was founded in January 1894 as a part of the Nippon Railway. It later became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), which succeeded the pre-war Nippon Railway, following its nationalization on November 1, 1906.