History
Karakasa Station opened on 30 October 1932 as the Karakasa flag stop on the Sanshin Railway between Kadoshima and Tenryūkyō. The Sanshin line was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and absorbed into the Iida Line; the stop was simultaneously upgraded to full station status and came under the Ministry of Railways (later JNR). The station was destaffed on 1 December 1971, and JR Central took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The Hiraoka–Tenryūkyō section, including this station, was suspended after Typhoon No. 18 in September 2013 and reopened on 10 October 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Karakasa Port, the boarding point for the Tenryū-Line river-descent boat tour, is a two-minute walk from the station, and the stop becomes briefly crowded in tourist season as boat passengers return to Tenryūkyō by train.