History
Kadode Station was conceived in 2019 as part of a joint development between Shimada City, JA Ōigawa, Ōigawa Railway and Central Nippon Expressway around the new Shimada-Kanaya interchange on the Shin-Tōmei Expressway. The name and opening date were announced on 25 September 2020, and the station opened on 12 November 2020 alongside the KADODE OOIGAWA retail and tourism complex it directly serves. It is the first new station on the Ōigawa Main Line in 35 years, since Hikiri Station in 1985. The single side platform is just 42 metres long, deliberately short so that the line's preserved steam trains do not stop there.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When Kadode opened, the neighbouring Goka Station was renamed Gōkaku ("pass the exam") to play off the local community's good-luck name and serve as a paired "departure" and "success" wordplay along the line.