History
Kakumodani Station opened on 21 June 1930 as the new terminus of the Kōchi Line, when Japanese Government Railways extended the route northwards from Tosa-Yamada. It served as the terminus only briefly: on 19 December 1932 the track was pushed further on, and the station became a through stop. Freight delivery handling was withdrawn on 1 October 1969, small-lot freight on 1 June 1970, and on 1 October 1970 the station was unstaffed entirely while parcel handling was restricted to inbound newspapers under a contracted-agent arrangement. At the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Shikoku. The former station building site is now occupied by the Tentsubo Fureai rest house, which effectively serves as the waiting room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because only a single car-length of platform has been raised to modern height, conductor-staffed two-car trains stopping at Kakumodani run a door-cut, opening doors on just one car.