History
Kamikambai Station opened on 5 September 1912 on the Ashio Railway, with the Omama–Kamido (now Kobe) section in what is today Midori, Gunma Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1918 as the Ashio Line. Freight ceased on 15 December 1960, parcel handling and staffing on 1 October 1970, and the line passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatisation. On 29 March 1989 the third-sector Watarase Keikoku Railway took over operations. The wooden station building and platform were registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property on 8 July 2008 and recognised as a Civil Engineering Heritage in 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The Mooka-style station building and platform of 1912 stood in for Hatsuse Tomohisa's fictional hometown in a 2017 episode of the TBS detective series "Ekiben Keiji" — an episode plot that hinged on an ekiben sold at the station, despite Kamikambai being unstaffed.