History
Kawasa Station opened on 28 July 1938 as an intermediate stop on the Fukuen Line when the Railway Ministry extended the route from Fuchūmachi (today’s Fuchū) to Jōge. Freight handling ended in December 1970, and the station was downgraded to simplified-commission status in April 1983. JR West inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In April 1989 the dam-flooded section between Kawasa and Bingo-Mikawa was rerouted through the new Hattabara Tunnel, eliminating the former Hattabara Station. Simplified commission was withdrawn in April 2008, leaving Kawasa an all-day unstaffed halt.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1989 dam-mandated reroute through the Hattabara Tunnel wiped out the former Hattabara Station between Kawasa and Bingo-Mikawa, and the line now runs beneath what is today the reservoir floor.