History
Kasado Station opened on 6 February 1892 as Takamiya Station on the privately owned Kansai Railway, when the Yokkaichi-Suzuka section of the future Kansai Main Line was completed. The station was renamed Kasado on 1 February 1903, and the Kansai Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1907. The Japanese Government Railways became the JNR after the Second World War, and the section through Kasado was electrified on 17 May 1982. Freight handling ended in January 1984 and parcel service in February 1984. The station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987, was fully de-staffed on 1 October 2012, gained TOICA on 2 March 2019, and was rebuilt with a new station building entering service in May 2025.
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
Kasado's 1 platform has stood unused since the 2023 timetable revision: it was only two cars long, and once all daytime services were converted to one-man operation with longer trains, the platform was fenced off and trains shifted to platform 2.