Timetable information
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Location
History
Kamikambai Station opened on 5 September 1912 on the Ashio Railway, with the opening of the Ōmama–Kōdo (now Kobe) section, in what is today Midori, Gunma Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1918 as the Ashio Line. Freight ceased on 15 December 1960, parcel handling and staffing on 1 October 1970, and the line passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatisation. On 29 March 1989 the third-sector Watarase Keikoku Railway took over operations. The wooden station building and platform were registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property on 8 July 2008, and the station building was recognised as a Civil Engineering Heritage in 2016.
Notes
The wooden station building and platform, in use since the station opened in 1912, stood in for Hatsuse Tomohisa's fictional hometown in a 2017 episode of the TBS detective series Ekiben Keiji — an episode whose premise has an ekiben sold at the station, despite Kamikambai being unstaffed.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: 皓月旗 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-06-09