Sakuma

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Sakuma opened on 10 November 1936 as the Sakuma-Misakuboguchi flag stop when the Sanshin Railway extended toward Tenryū-Yamamuro in present-day Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu. It was upgraded to a full station on 7 February 1941 and renamed Sakuma later that year. After the Sanshin Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as part of the Iida Line, the station was relocated on 11 November 1955 to clear the site of the new Sakuma Hydroelectric Plant. Freight handling ended on 1 December 1971, and the station was de-staffed on 24 February 1984 under the Iida Line's southern CTC programme. It passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the platforms were reduced to a single track in January 2008.

The station building was rebuilt in 1989 jointly with the Hamamatsu Municipal Sakuma Library; during opening hours, passengers waiting for the next Iida Line train can sit inside the library itself.