History
Iwafune Station opened on 10 October 1889 as a Ryōmō Railway station, originally written 岩船駅. The line was taken over by Nippon Railway on 1 January 1897 and nationalised in 1906; on 1 March 1902 the kanji were changed to the present 岩舟. The current building dates from 1936, a half-timbered wooden structure on a foundation of locally quarried "Iwafune stone." The station became unstaffed on 14 March 1985 — briefly restaffed before being destaffed again on 1 December 2003 — and the station-master's quarters were demolished in March 2006 to convert the remainder into an open waiting hall. Suica service began on 18 November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1936 station building rests on a foundation of locally quarried "Iwafune stone," and the station features in Makoto Shinkai's 2007 animated film 5 Centimeters per Second as the meeting point of the two protagonists in March 1995.