History
Tenryūgawa Station opened on 10 July 1898 on the government-built Tōkaidō Line between Nakaizumi (today Iwata) and Hamamatsu, in present-day Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The station owed its existence to the timber merchant Kanahara Meizen, who had earlier persuaded the railway authorities to open a freight yard here in September 1892 and founded the Tenryū Transport Company; his company's branch line to the Tenryū River bank opened in August 1908. Freight handling other than dedicated sidings ended in March 1972, parcels were abandoned in 1985, the station passed to JR Central and JR Freight on 1 April 1987, freight traffic ended entirely in March 1997, and TOICA arrived on 1 March 2008. A bridge-type station building with a north-south passageway opened on 24 September 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's address — Tenryūgawa-chō — was assigned to the former Hashiwa village after Hamamatsu absorbed it, the place name following the station rather than the other way around, and the district does not actually touch the river.