History
Sawanakayama Station opened on 19 March 1921 as a stop on the Tateyama Railway. It was closed on 18 August 1936 and reopened in 1940. Through the 1943 wartime consolidation of Toyama-area private operators, the Tateyama Railway was absorbed into Toyama Chihō Railway, and the station has been operated on what is now the Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line ever since. Today it is an unstaffed single-platform halt in a rural farming area of Tateyama town, designated station T50, between Kamagafuchi (T49) and Iwakuraji (T51); express services pass through without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Sawanakayama is one of very few Toyama Chihō Railway stations to have been formally abolished and later reinstated; it spent close to four years off the network between 1936 and 1940.