History
Sasazu Station opened on 6 December 1914 as the terminus of the Toyama Light Railway, soon becoming a freight hub for the Kamioka mines via a connecting horse tramway. The line became Toyama Railway in 1915. The JNR Hietsu Line reached Sasazu from Etchū-Yatsuo on 1 October 1929, and the section to Inotani opened the following year, after which most Kamioka-related freight was diverted via Inotani and the Toyama Railway's parallel narrow-gauge line was eventually closed in 1933. The route was redesignated as part of the Takayama Main Line in 1934. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation, was unstaffed in April 1991, and the present steel-frame station building was completed on 29 October 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the Takayama Main Line reached Inotani in 1930, virtually all freight from the Kamioka mines was transhipped at Sasazu via a private narrow-gauge tramway; once Inotani took over that role, freight here collapsed by more than half and the parallel Toyama Railway closed within three years.