History
Shironishi Station opened on 11 November 1955 in present-day Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, when Japanese National Railways rerouted the Iida Line between Sakuma and Ōzore to clear the rising waters impounded by the new Sakuma Dam. The station was therefore part of an entirely relocated alignment along the Misakubo River rather than an upgrade of an older stop. Baggage/parcel handling was withdrawn on 1 December 1971 and the station has been unstaffed since February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it transferred to JR Central, and on 27 January 2008 the second platform was removed, converting it to a single-track halt with one side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
Between Shironishi and the next station, Mukōichiba, the Iida Line crosses the Misakubo River on the celebrated S-shaped Number 6 Misakubo River Bridge, a continuous-curve viaduct built because the dam reservoir's expected high-water line made a straight crossing impossible.