History
Tokusawa Station opened on 1 November 1914 when the Railway Agency's Iwakoshi Line was extended between Nozawa and Tsugawa, the final segment completing the route now known as the Banetsu West Line. Freight handling ended on 1 September 1972. The station was destaffed and switched to simple contract operation on 28 February 1983, with parcel service ending the same day, and the present concrete combined-use building was completed on 24 February 1984. Control passed to JR East at JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation. The building also houses a Nishi-Aizu town office branch and a small post office, and is the trailhead station for the Yaheishirō route up Mount Iide.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the 1950s, a 20-kilometre forestry tramway ran from the Tokusawa area along the Oku River to the Yaheishirō hamlet, carrying lumber bound for export to the United States.