History
Asumomae Station was established on 15 March 1987 on the Tenryū Hamanako Line at the time JNR's former Futamata Line was transferred to the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Railroad. The name commemorates ASMO Co., an automotive components maker headquartered nearby; even after ASMO was absorbed into its parent Denso on 1 April 2018 the station retained its name, citing renaming costs and a lack of demand from either company. Denso later purchased naming rights for the station, displaying the secondary name "Denso's Motor Production Site" from 1 March 2024 through 31 March 2026. The unstaffed halt has a single side platform serving one bidirectional track and sits 66.7 km from the Kakegawa terminus.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the name can be read as "asu mo mae" ("tomorrow too, forward"), the station has been promoted as Japan's most optimistic-sounding station name, and good-luck station-name keychains are sold as souvenirs.