Ōzore

History

Ōzore Station opened on 29 December 1936 as the terminus of the Sanshin Railway when the line was extended from Tenryū Yamamuro, in present-day Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. It became a through station on 20 August 1937 when the line reached Kowada, completing the last segment of what is now the Iida Line. On 1 August 1943 the Sanshin Railway was nationalised. After the 1957 completion of the Sakuma Dam submerged a portion of the original track, the station was relocated uphill following an earlier 1942 disaster in which a downpour washed the platform into the Tenryū River. Freight and parcel handling ended in December 1971, the station was destaffed in February 1984, and it passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The 1997 station building, paid for by Tomiyama village at a cost of about 38 million yen and roughly 5 % of its annual general-account budget, is a 56-square-metre miniature of Tokyo Station — red-brick-style façade and all — and was opened on 20 August to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Iida Line.