History
Shūchi-Kasagami Station opened on 17 March 1993 as an added stop along the existing third-sector Nishikigawa Seiryū Line, in what is today the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The station is located 5.4 kilometres from the line origin at Kawanishi. It is among the lightest-trafficked stations in Japan: fiscal 2011 returns recorded an average of just four passengers boarding per day. The hiragana element かさ in the station name preserves the locally distinctive reading of 笠 from a nearby Kasagami shrine that gives the stop its second half.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.