Station

Kamio

神尾

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Kamio
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Kamio Station opened on 20 July 1928 as one of the original stations on the Ōigawa Railway Ōigawa Main Line, located 9.8 kilometres from the line's terminus at Kanaya. The station sits unattended on a single island platform with a wooden passenger shelter and no station building proper, in a remote stretch of hillside above the Ōi River in the city of Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. On 17 August 2003 a landslide on the station premises closed the Kanaya–Fukuyō section of the line; service was fully restored on 19 March 2004. On 21 January 2024 the operator launched the "Kamio Station Tanuki-fication Plan", under which special semi-express trains ran between Kanaya and Kamio until 24 March.

Notes

Dozens of Shigaraki-ware tanuki figurines line the south side of the station, including one dressed as a conductor — a memorial replica of the late Ishihara Shimezō, the original "SL Uncle" who narrated the railway's steam excursions.

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