Kanose

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Kanose Station opened on 1 November 1914 with the completion of the Railway Agency's Gan'etsu Line between Nozawa and Tsugawa. The station was originally not planned, but was added through the influence of Hara Takashi — then Minister of Home Affairs, who had served as vice-president of Furukawa Mining, operator of the nearby Kusakura copper mine since the Meiji era. Heavy industrial traffic followed after Tōshin Electric began building a hydropower plant nearby in 1925, with a chemical plant (later Shōwa Denkō) built once the power station was completed in 1928; at its 1950s peak the station handled more than 4,000 passengers boarding and alighting each day. Goods declined as production shifted away from carbide-based processes. The dedicated-line (senyō-sen) freight train was abolished in March 1985, general freight handling ended on 20 October 1986, and the station became unstaffed (under simplified consignment) the following month. It passed to JR East on 1 April 1987, and the passing loop was removed in November 1991.

In the mid-twentieth century, Shōwa Denkō's chemical works next to the station made Kanose a true company town; even in 1961 the freight handled here exceeded 1,100 tonnes a day, much of it limestone railed in from Ōmi on the Hokuriku Main Line.