History
Omori Station opened on 1 April 1954 as a stop on the Chubu Electric Power Company's private rail line in present-day Kawanehon, Shizuoka, and was taken over by the Ōigawa Railway as part of its Ikawa Line on 1 August 1959. The station, 17.8 kilometres from the line's starting point at Senzu, was built mainly to supply the Ikawa Dam construction in the 1960s; at the peak around 1955 some seventeen to eighteen company camps housed roughly 200 workers nearby, and an elementary-school branch operated alongside them. After the Ikawa Dam was completed in 1957 the surrounding area was effectively depopulated, but a Chubu Electric compensation contract obliging timber haulage from the station prevented closure even after the last shipment left in February 1970.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
There is no public road to Omori Station, no nearby houses, and a pair of Shigaraki-ware tanuki statues stands on the disused opposite platform; in 2009–2010 bears were sighted near the station, after which the formerly locked maintenance hut was opened up to passengers as an emergency shelter.