History
Sangane Station opened on 20 March 1967 between Gamagōri and Kōda on the Japanese National Railways' Tōkaidō Main Line, after over sixteen years of petitioning by residents of Fukōzu in what is now the town of Kōta, Aichi. The station's location is Fukōzu, but because the place-name was considered difficult to read it was named after nearby Mount Sangane and the ropeway then operating there. Local communities contributed the full 84,373,326 yen construction cost as a petition (seigan) station. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central; the TOICA IC-card system began on 25 November 2006; and on 1 October 2017 the ticket window closed and the station became permanently unstaffed, replaced by JR Central's Customer Support service. Line numbering CA49 was introduced in March 2018.
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 station was named for the gateway it would provide to Mount Sangane, the Sangane ropeway closed in 1976 and the Meitetsu Bus link soon after, so today it functions only as a Tōkaidō Main Line commuter stop and not as a tourist gateway. The station building's east plaza holds a stone monument that records the long petition campaign that led to its opening.