History
Kanasashi Station was first opened on 30 November 1914 by the narrow-gauge Hamamatsu Light Railway, later absorbed into the Enshū Railway's Okuyama Line. A separate station of the same name opened on 1 April 1938 as the western terminus of the JNR Futamata-West Line, with the line extended onward to Enshū-Mori on 1 June 1940 to complete the through route across the Hamana plain. The adjacent Okuyama Line spur closed in 1964, and freight service on the JNR line ended in March 1985. On 15 March 1987 the station passed to the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Railroad. The water tower, platform canopy and platform were listed as Registered Tangible Cultural Properties on 26 January 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Because the JNR Futamata Line was intended to function as a wartime bypass for the Tōkaidō Main Line, the older Hamamatsu Railway was required to build a concrete overbridge crossing above the JNR tracks — an inversion of the usual hierarchy, where new lines bridge over older ones.