History
Kaga-Kasama Station opened on 1 August 1923 as a general station between Mikawa and Matto on the government's Hokuriku Main Line, in what is today Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. Freight operations ended on 1 November 1963 and parcel handling on 1 October 1971, when the depot was destaffed except for operating duties. After the 1987 privatisation it was a JR West station. ICOCA support began on 15 April 2017, the depot was fully unstaffed from 1 April 2021, and on 16 March 2024 it transferred to IR Ishikawa Railway with the Hokuriku Shinkansen's extension to Tsuruga.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name carries the old province prefix 'Kaga' because by 1923 the JNR already had a Kasama Station on the Mito Line.