History
Kanzō Station opened on 1 August 1959 on the Ōigawa Railway Ikawa Line, 20.5 kilometres from the line's starting point at Senzu, in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. It is the westernmost station in the city of Shizuoka. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing; there is no station building, only a small unstaffed shelter on the platform. Originally built to shorten the block sections through the steep gorge country, Kanzō also served Ōigawa-River dam construction in the 1960s. The line through the station was suspended on 2 September 2014 after a landslip 600 metres south, reopened on 11 March 2017, suspended again from 8 May 2018 to 9 March 2019, and again from 21 May to 5 August 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In the past, the conductor on the first train of the day, arriving at 9:51 a.m., was contracted to deliver newspapers — copies for nearby residents were loaded onto the service and left in the station shed for collection.