History
Sawama Station is an unstaffed halt on the Ōigawa Railway's Ikawa Line in the town of Kawanehon, Shizuoka Prefecture, located 2.4 kilometres from the line's starting point at Senzu. The site dates to 1931 as a stop on the Sumatagawa Forestry Railway, with an adjacent freight transfer to the Kawane Electric Ropeway. The current passenger station opened on 1 August 1959, when the Chubu Electric Power industrial line was transferred to Ōigawa Railway and rebranded as the Ikawa Line. The original wooden station building was demolished in December 2018 due to age, and a small waiting shelter matching nearby Tsuchimoto and Kanzō stations entered use on 15 January 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Fiscal-2017 ridership averaged 0.4 boardings per day; the station mostly serves as a quiet passing point on the descent into the upper Ōi River gorge, with traces of the vanished forestry railway still visible on the Senzu side.