History
Senzu Station opened on December 1, 1931 as one of the original stations on the Ōigawa Main Line. The connecting Sumatagawa forestry tramway began running through to Senzu in May 1935 via the industrial railway that would later become the Ikawa Line, and the line was widened from 762 mm gauge to 1,067 mm in November 1936 while a three-rail section was retained on the Senzu - Sawama segment. The industrial line passed to Ōigawa Railway as the Ikawa Line on August 1, 1959. A manually operated turntable transferred from the former Higashi-Akatani Station was installed on July 20, 1980, and is registered as a Tangible Cultural Property since August 28, 2001. The current lodge-style station building was completed on July 30, 1992. After Typhoon Nanmadol caused landslide damage in September 2022, service on both lines was suspended; the Ikawa Line returned to full operation on October 22, 2022, and through running on the Ōigawa Main Line resumed as far as Aobe in November 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The turntable preserved at Senzu was built by Ransomes & Rapier of Ipswich in 1897, one of fifteen identical 50-foot tables imported to Japan; today five station staff and the locomotive crew turn it by hand for every steam departure.