Ozore

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Ōzore Station opened on 29 December 1936 as the terminus of the Sanshin Railway when the line was extended from Tenryū Yamamuro, in present-day Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. It became a through station on 20 August 1937 when the line reached Kowada, completing the last segment of what is now the Iida Line. On 1 August 1943 the Sanshin Railway was nationalised. In 1955 the Sakuma–Ōzore section was realigned for the construction of the Sakuma Dam, which on its completion in 1957 submerged part of the original track, and the station was rebuilt further up the hillside — a precaution taken because a downpour on 27 September 1942 had already washed its platform and station building into the Tenryū River. Freight and parcel handling ended in December 1971, the station was destaffed in February 1984, and it passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987.

The 1997 station building, paid for by Tomiyama village at a cost of about 38 million yen and roughly 5 % of its annual general-account budget, is a 56-square-metre miniature of Tokyo Station — red-brick-style façade and all — and was opened on 20 August to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Iida Line.