History
Daiyūzan Station opened on 15 October 1925 as a station on the Daiyūzan Railway, becoming part of the Sunzu Railway — today's Izuhakone Railway — through a merger on 23 August 1941. It serves as the terminus of the 9.6-km Daiyūzan Line from Odawara in Minamiashigara, Kanagawa. The station forecourt was redeveloped in July 1996, and the station was selected as one of the Kantō Station 100 in 1998. The Daiyūzan Line was the first on the system to install automated fare gates in March 2003 in preparation for the PASMO rollout that followed on 18 March 2007. In June 2012 the station building was registered as a local cultural property by Minamiashigara City.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1 March 2015 the departure melody at Daiyūzan has been the traditional children's song "Kintarō," reflecting the legend of the boy-hero of Mount Ashigara whose statue stands in the station plaza; in February 2024 a sponsorship deal added a sub-name, "Yume o Katachi ni."