History
Kanente Station opened on 15 August 1929 as a passenger stop on the privately operated Fuji-Minobu Railway, a few hundred metres east of Kōfu in Yamanashi Prefecture. Promotion to full station status came on 1 October 1938, when the Ministry of Railways leased the line and added freight handling. The line was nationalised on 1 May 1941 as part of the Minobu Line. The station building burned down during the 1945 firebombing of Kōfu, and services resumed in a rebuilt structure on 10 May 1953. Freight was discontinued on 1 April 1959 and the station became unstaffed on 1 October 1970. It passed to JR Central at the 1987 privatisation of JNR.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name traces to the old Kōshū Kaidō, which kinks sharply through the neighbourhood in a castle-town "kagi-no-te" (key-shaped) bend later corrupted into kanente; the place-name itself was absorbed into Jōtō 1-chōme in 1963.