History
Tanokuchi Station opened on 12 April 1931 as one of the original stations of the Ōigawa Main Line, in what is today Kawanehon Town in Shizuoka Prefecture. The wooden station building dates from that opening year. The station was made unstaffed in February 1970, with the ticket window boarded over. In 2005 a restoration project by the Japan Private Railway Association brought back the original ticket window, added timber benches and repaired the platform and station-building roof, returning the structure to something close to its 1931 appearance to support its use as a film and television location. A typhoon-induced landslide in September 2022 caused the line through the station to be suspended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1931 wooden station building has been preserved in near-original condition and is regularly used as a filming location for films and television dramas set in the Shōwa era.