History
Chūbu-Tenryū Station opened on 11 November 1934 as Sakuma Station, the terminus of the privately built Sanshin Railway in what is now the Tenryū ward of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was renamed Nakappe-Tenryū the next year and again, with a pronunciation change, to Chūbu-Tenryū in 1942. The Sanshin Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 to form part of the new Iida Line. Freight handling was scaled back from 1980 and abolished by 1982. JR Central inherited the station at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 1991 to November 2009, it hosted the Sakuma Rail Park railway museum on its grounds.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station was the gateway to Sakuma Rail Park, a JR Central railway museum that operated on its grounds from 1991 until its closure in November 2009.