History
Hamakita Station opened on 6 December 1909 as Kibune Station, on what is now the Enshu Railway Line in present-day Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was renamed Enshu-Kibune Station in April 1923, and freight operations on a Nisshin Boseki spinning-mill siding ran from 1926 until they were discontinued in October 1973. The station took its current name in August 1977, when the building was rebuilt as a two-story structure incorporating a small shopping arcade of twenty-three tenants. The arcade closed for redevelopment and the building was rebuilt again in December 2003. The station was barrier-free renovated in February 2018. It has a single island platform with two tracks, staffed and equipped with NicePass turnstiles.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1924 to 1937 a competing line operated its own Kibune Station on exactly the same spot, run by the West-Enshu Railway, which closed when the rival National Futamata Line was built nearby.