History
Saginomiya Station opened on 6 December 1909 as Kyōdō Station, a stop on the Dai-Nippon Kidō Hamamatsu Branch. Operation passed to Enshū Kidō (later Enshū Railway) on 12 October 1919, and the name became Enshū-Kyōdō Station on 1 April 1923. It was renamed Saginomiya — after the nearby Yasaka ("Saginomiya") Shrine — on 1 April 1966. In October 1972 the station was moved roughly 100 metres north and the adjacent Enshū-Shinmura Station was abolished. Since 1 April 1984 the station has been unstaffed during early-morning and late-night hours.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Saginomiya is widely regarded as the inspiration for the popular Japanese urban legend of "Kisaragi Station" — a stop that supposedly exists between the real ones on the Enshu Railway line.