History
Sakuragi Station opened on 17 April 1935 as Tōtōmi-Sakuragi Station, a general station handling both passengers and freight, at Tonbe, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, when the Ministry of Railways' Futamata Line was inaugurated from Kakegawa to Tōtōmi-Mori. Freight handling ceased on 15 November 1971. On 15 March 1987 the Futamata Line was converted to a third-sector railway and the station passed to the Tenryū Hamanako Railroad and was renamed Sakuragi. The station became unstaffed on 1 November 2009. On 26 January 2011 the station building and the upbound platform structure adjoining it were registered as Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan. On 7 November 2022 Yamaha acquired naming rights for the station, with the subsidiary name "Sakuragi (Home of Yamaha Pianos)" applied through 31 March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
About 200 metres south of the station lies the Yamaha Kakegawa Factory complex, the reason the station carries Yamaha's "Home of Yamaha Pianos" subsidiary name under the 2022 naming-rights deal. The down-side exit, separate from the main station building, opens directly toward the Yamaha plant.