History
Shin-Kanaya Station opened on 10 June 1927, the same day the Ōigawa Railway began service, in what is now Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. Sitting 2.3 kilometres from Kanaya, the line's connection to the national network, it is the operational hub of the Ōigawa Main Line. A turntable on site was removed on 28 September 1970, and reinstalled on 7 October 2011 (the opening day of SL Festa 2011) as part of Shimada City's tourism strategy. The two-storey clapboard wooden station building doubles as the Ōigawa Railway's corporate headquarters and was added to Japan's Registered Tangible Cultural Properties on 2 November 2018. The station has a single island platform served by a level crossing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shin-Kanaya is the operational base for the Ōigawa Railway's steam locomotive trains: SL departures begin and end here, the on-site Shin-Kanaya rolling-stock depot maintains the engines, and the turntable handles their reversal between runs.