History
Utsubuna Station opened on 8 October 1918 as Utsubuna-Nanbu Station, the terminus of an extension of the privately operated Fuji-Minobu Railway from Tōshima in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture. The line was pushed on to Kai-Ōshima on 8 December 1919, and the station was renamed Utsubuna on 1 October 1938 when the Ministry of Railways leased the line; full nationalisation followed on 1 May 1941, making it part of the Ministry of Railways' Minobu Line. The current concrete two-storey station building was completed in March 1967. Freight handling ended on 1 September 1981, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and JNR's division and privatisation on 1 April 1987 placed Utsubuna under JR Central. The station was destaffed on 1 April 1999.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After Typhoon Roke severed the line north of Utsubuna in September 2011, the station hosted overnight train layovers and signal staff manually boarded inbound trains until full restoration in March 2012.