History
Kawane-Koyama Station opened on 1 August 1959 on Ōigawa Railway's Ikawa Line, 5.8 kilometres from the line's official starting point at Senzu in Shizuoka's Kawanehon township. Two opposed side platforms serve two tracks, connected by a level crossing and a small log-cabin-style rain shelter; the station is unattended. The surrounding Koyama district is regarded as the birthplace of hydropower on the Ōi River, but residents are few — by one local report, a single elderly woman was the only regular commuter at the time. Fiscal-2019 boardings averaged 0.5 passengers per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
On 22 February 2020, the station was renamed informally to "Kawanekoyama" (川猫山) — "river-cat-mountain" — for Cat Day, with a special photo-and-illustration board added to play on the homophone.