History
Asahi Station opened on 8 August 1983 as a petition station on the Japanese National Railways Kansai Main Line between the Asake Signal Station and Tomida, with its 73-million-yen construction cost borne entirely by the local community after sustained appeals dating to 1966. From 1 April 1987 the station passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) at JNR privatisation. TOICA IC-card service began on 25 November 2006 and station numbering CI08 (later CJ08) was introduced on 17 March 2018. The station has two opposed elevated side platforms, no station building, and is unstaffed; on 8 March 2026 automated ticket machines were installed and the train doors began opening for full one-man operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the original platform layout was designed around manual ticket collection by the conductor, the entrances on the up and down platforms are offset rather than aligned.