History
Tarumi Station opened on 25 March 1989 as the terminus of the Tarumi Line's extension from Shinkai, in what is now the city of Motosu, Gifu Prefecture. The line had originally been built by Japanese National Railways from Ogaki to Tanigumiguchi in 1956, but it took more than three decades for the route to reach Tarumi — the historic centre of the former Neo village — under private operator Tarumi Railway. The original station building, a combined facility with a local tourism shop styled after a traditional folk house, was destroyed by a fire of suspicious origin on 28 April 2007 and rebuilt as "Usuzumi Fureai Plaza" in April 2008. In December 2024, the station was reconfigured to a single track.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The line was originally chartered as part of an unbuilt railway from Ogaki via Ono in Fukui to Kanazawa; the parallel road over Nukumi Pass is still considered one of Honshu's most notorious "rough national highways".