History
Kamogawa Station opened on 21 February 1897 as an intermediate stop when the privately built Sanuki Railway extended its track from Marugame to Takamatsu. The Sanuki Railway was absorbed by the Sanyo Railway on 1 December 1904 and the line was nationalised on 1 December 1906. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Shikoku and now carries the station number Y06. A footbridge was added in September 1971, the current reinforced-concrete station building was completed in February 2002, and the station was de-staffed on 1 October 2010. ICOCA was introduced via a simple validator on 1 March 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kamogawa once retained a long set of side tracks where the JNR's HoKi 800 ballast-distribution hopper cars were stabled; the layout was rebuilt into the current two island platforms and four tracks when the Rapid Sunport service began.