History
Tenryū-Futamata Station opened on 1 June 1940 as Tōtōmi-Futamata Station when the Japanese National Railways Futamata Line was extended from Enshū-Mori to Kanasashi. A timber yard and freight branch were built in tandem to handle logs floated down the Tenryū River. Freight ceased on 1 November 1982, and on 15 March 1987 the line passed to the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Railroad, with the station renamed Tenryū-Futamata. The wooden 1940 station building, the platform canopies, and the steam-era roundhouse and turntable were registered as national Tangible Cultural Properties in 1998 and 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The active steam-era roundhouse and turntable behind the station are registered Tangible Cultural Properties, and the station served as the model for "Village Three" in the 2021 anime film Evangelion: 3.0+1.0.