History
The present Kakidaira Station is the second of that name on the site. A first Kakidaira Halt was established on 5 May 1929 by the Hōraiji Railway, but was abolished when the Hōraiji Railway was nationalised into the Iida Line on 1 August 1943. Local petitioning from 1947, with land and construction costs donated locally, led the JNR to reopen the stop on 15 February 1950. Initially it accepted only passengers travelling to or from a defined list of stations on the Tōkaidō, Iida, Chūō and Shinonoi Lines (including Matsumoto); this restriction was lifted on 2 December 1952. JR Central took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Today it is an unstaffed single-platform stop managed from Toyokawa.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station is a designated stop of the seasonal "Iida Line Secret-Station Train" (Iida-sen Hikyō-eki Gō) limited rapid, recognised as one of the line's celebrated remote-rural halts.