History
Kai-Iwama Station opened on 17 December 1927 as a station of the privately owned Fuji-Minobu Railway when the line was extended from Minobu to Ichikawa-Daimon. The Ministry of Railways leased the line on 1 October 1938 and nationalised it on 1 May 1941, making it part of the JGR (later JNR) Minobu Line. Freight operations ended in 1972 and parcel handling in 1985; the station passed to JR Central at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. It was destaffed on 1 April 1999, and the original wooden depot was replaced by the present small concrete station building in April 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Kai-Iwama is the local hub for the former Rokugō Town and is a regular stop even for the JR Central "Fujikawa" limited express, it lies in a stretch of the Minobu Line where Mt. Fuji is hidden behind the surrounding hills; the area immediately around the station is the rare spot from which the mountain's summit can be glimpsed. Rokugō has long been one of Japan's centres of name-stamp production—at its peak the district produced about half of the country's seals—and a stone marker celebrating this trade stands on the station forecourt.