History
Urakawa Station is an island-platform JR Central stop on the Iida Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, 57.3 km from the line's origin at Toyohashi. It opened on 1934-11-11 as a general station on the Sanshin Railway with the extension from Sanshin-Miwa (today Tōei) to Sakuma (today Chūbu-Tenryū). When the Sanshin Railway was nationalised on 1943-08-01 the station joined the JNR Iida Line under the Ministry of Transportation. Dedicated-siding freight handling ended on 1980-03-31. With CTC commissioning on 1984-02-24 the station was contracted out, and from 1987-03-01 became unmanned overnight. It passed to JR Central at the 1987-04-01 JNR breakup and became completely unstaffed on 1991-02-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Urakawa is a scheduled stop for the seasonal "Iida Line Hikyō-eki" (secluded-station) express in the up direction, despite seeing only around 30 boarding passengers a day.