History
Shionosawa Station opened on 1 September 1933 as a signal stop on the original Fuji-Minobu Line, in what is now Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture. It was upgraded to a full station on 1 June 1934. With the absorption of the private Fuji-Minobu Line into the state network the station came under Japanese Government Railways control on 1 May 1941, then under Japanese National Railways after the Second World War, and finally to JR Central at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The Minobu Line still serves the station, which has a single side platform on a single bi-directional track. There is no station building; passengers wait under a small platform shelter at this unstaffed stop above the Fuji River.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shionosawa spent its first ten months as a signal stop before being licensed as a station, so the JR-era kilometric distances on the Minobu Line are measured to a point that did not handle passengers when the line first opened.