History
Isawa-onsen Station opened on 11 June 1903 as Isawa Station, one of four stations inaugurated together with the Chuo Line's Hatsukano to Kofu section. Local lobbying had pulled the line through Okabe village to serve Isawa-juku, the post town across the Fuefuki River. The wooden two-storey 1936 station building remained in use until 2014. Freight handling was discontinued from March 1985, and JR East and JR Freight inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation. The name changed to Isawa-onsen on 1 April 1993 to reflect the surrounding hot-spring district. A new overpass station building opened in 2015-2016, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 30 November 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 10 February 2016 the departure melody at Isawa-onsen has been Takeda-bushi, a Yamanashi folk song commemorating the warlord Takeda Shingen.