Kamezaki

History

Kamezaki Station opened on March 1, 1886 as a combined passenger and freight stop on the Japanese Government Railways line between Taketoyo and Atsuta — Aichi Prefecture's first railway. With the 1909 reorganisation it became part of the Taketoyo Line. The station building was extended in March 1929 and freight handling ended on November 15, 1975. Operations passed to JR Central with JNR privatization on April 1, 1987, TOICA service started on November 25, 2006, ticket-office sales ended on September 30, 2013, and the station went unstaffed under the central customer-support system the next day. Barrier-free works including an elevator were completed on February 28, 2014.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Kamezaki is frequently cited as Japan's oldest active station building, though contemporary Meiji railway records describe a station fire in March 1895, leaving local historians divided over whether the present building dates from 1886 or its post-fire reconstruction.