History
Kamedake Station opened on 20 November 1934 when the JGR Kisuki Line was extended between Yakawa and Izumo-Minari, in present-day Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture. Staff were withdrawn in October 1971 and a second platform later removed, leaving a single ground-level side platform. The wooden station building survived; from 1973 a soba restaurant called Ōgi-ya has occupied it, and the proprietor is contracted to sell tickets on JR West's behalf. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation of JNR. In fiscal 2019 it averaged about twenty passengers daily.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station appears in Seichō Matsumoto's novel "Inspector Imanishi Investigates"; the 1974 film adaptation, however, shot its platform scenes at Izumo-Yashiro and its station building at Yakawa.