History
Ōhito Station opened on 17 July 1899 when the Sunzu Line was extended from Nanjō (today's Izu-Nagaoka) to here; a request to extend the line to the port of Shimoda was lodged with the imperial Diet in December of the same year but never implemented. From 1899 to 1924 the station served as the line's terminus, after which a further extension to Shuzenji on 1 August 1924 made it an intermediate stop. It is now station IS11 on the Izuhakone Railway. From late March 2020 it has been unstaffed for most of the day, with staff dispatched from a neighbouring station only during the time slots when the limited-express "Odoriko" departs to handle reserved-seat ticketing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 27 March 2015 the section through Ōhito hosted the world's first revenue-environment superconducting-power-transmission test for trains, organised by the Railway Technical Research Institute and using transmission equipment installed at the station itself.