History
Okaji Station was established on 15 March 1987, the day the former Japanese National Railways Futamata Line was succeeded by the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Railroad's Tenryū Hamanako Line. The station is located in Hamana-ku of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and lies 43.5 km from the line's starting point at Kakegawa. It originally bore the name Kiga-Kōkō-mae Station, reflecting its role as the closest stop to nearby Kiga High School and serving the school's pupils. The station name was changed to its present form on 14 March 2015, simultaneously with the opening of Morimachi-byōin-mae Station elsewhere on the line. The stop has a single side platform with no station building, and remains unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite its location on a private third-sector railway, the station was originally named directly after the high school it served and only adopted its current geographic name in 2015 — nearly three decades after opening.