History
Kawaneonsen-Sasamado Station opened on 16 July 1930 as Sasamado Station, one of the original stations of the Ōigawa Main Line, then operated by the Ōigawa Railway and serving the village of Sasamado in present-day Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. Express services began stopping in March 1999, and on 1 October 2003 the station was renamed Kawaneonsen-Sasamado to emphasise its proximity to the Kawane hot-spring resort. Service was suspended on 24 September 2022 after Typhoon No. 15 of 2022 caused damage between Ieyama and Senzu, and the Ieyama to Kawaneonsen-Sasamado segment resumed on 1 October 2023, when the station also became a stop for the new Section Express and Rapid services. From 26 April 2025 the limited-express Kikansha Thomas service began calling here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Although the line beyond Kawaneonsen-Sasamado to Senzu has been closed since the 2022 typhoon, the substitute Kawanehon-machi municipal bus does not call at the station itself, terminating at Ieyama instead and stopping only at the nearby Kawane Onsen Hotel.