History
Torisawa Station opened on 1 June 1902 as a passenger and freight stop on the Chūō Line in Ōtsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, 81.2 kilometres from Tokyo Station. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001, and the staffed ticket window closed on 31 May 2009. The wooden depot was rebuilt in stages from November 2015: the station became unattended on 1 December 2015, and a new building was completed and opened on 2 March 2016, with the old structure demolished thereafter. From 1 October 2019 the railway began appointing a JR East alumnus as honorary station master to oversee local beautification volunteers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2016 rebuild left the new station without public toilets; the city eventually opened a separate public lavatory in the station forecourt in September 2017 after local schoolchildren were temporarily directed to a nearby elementary-school pool.