Hamanako-Sakume

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Hamanako-Sakume Station opened on 1 April 1938 as Sakume Station when the Ministry of Railways' Futamata West Line was extended from Kanasashi to Mikkabi in present-day Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Freight services ended on 21 August 1962 and parcel handling on 1 June 1970, after which the station became unstaffed. On 15 March 1987 the line was transferred to the third-sector Tenryu Hamanako Railroad, becoming the Tenryu Hamanako Line, and the station was renamed to its present form. It has a single side platform 50.7 kilometres from the line start at Kakegawa, and its station building, fronting directly onto Lake Hamana, houses a local cafe.

In winter the platform fills with yurikamome (black-headed gulls) flying just metres away, drawing birdwatchers - though the lake view is not especially good, because the Tomei Expressway crosses the water just off the shore.