History
Enshū-Shibamoto Station opened on 6 December 1909 as Shibamoto Station, taking its name from the Shibamoto-gō area rather than the village (Akasa-mura's Oro hamlet) the station physically stood in. It was renamed Enshū-Shibamoto on 1 April 1923. The station was relocated towards Gansuiji on 21 December 1936 to a single side platform, was suspended or closed sometime in 1937, and reopened on 1 November 1946. On 1 December 1990 it was moved roughly 110 m south and converted to a single island platform with two tracks, cutting the Shin-Hamamatsu–Nishi-Kajima running time from 36 to 32 minutes. The Shibamoto–Enshū-Kobayashi section was elevated on 13 October 2011 ahead of the National Route 152 Hamakita-Tenryū Bypass underpass.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The first character of the name has shifted with the centuries: it was originally written 柴本 ("shiba moto", the root or trunk of brushwood) and traces to the pioneer-settler term "shiba-kiri" — "the brushwood-clearer". An alternative theory derives the name from Prince Shibaki, a figure historically linked to the area. The station also drops its "Enshū" prefix on board PA announcements.