History
Ashigawa Station opened on 11 February 1929 as a passenger stop on the Fuji-Minobu Line in what is today the town of Ichikawamisato, Nishiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi Prefecture. It was elevated from a stop to a full station on 1 October 1938, and the line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on 1 May 1941. The station has been unattended since its opening and has no station building. Following the division and privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, operation passed to the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The station retains a single side platform on a single track of the Minobu Line, 71.7 km from the southern terminus at Fuji.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Until 2001 the Sōya Main Line in Hokkaidō had a separate Ashigawa Station written with the same characters but read "Ashikawa," a homophone-character pairing now unique to the Yamanashi station.