Sasazu

Weekday departures: 19/day · Sat & holiday departures: 19/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:14 / 23:57

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Takayama Line: Higashi-Yatsuo ⇄ Nirehara

Sasazu Station opened on 6 December 1914 as the terminus of the Toyama Light Railway, soon becoming a freight hub for the Kamioka mines via a connecting horse tramway. The line became Toyama Railway in 1915. The JNR Hietsu Line reached Sasazu from Etchū-Yatsuo on 1 October 1929, and the section to Inotani opened the following year, after which most Kamioka-related freight was diverted via Inotani and the Toyama Railway's parallel narrow-gauge line was eventually closed in 1933. The route was redesignated as part of the Takayama Main Line in 1934. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation, was unstaffed in April 1991, and the present steel-frame station building was completed on 29 October 2005.

Until the line was extended to Inotani in 1930, Kamioka mine ore was transhipped at Sasazu from a private tramway, and Kamioka traffic made up about 90 per cent of the freight handled at the station. The Hietsu Line's arrival at Sasazu in 1929 moved that traffic onto the national railway, cutting the Toyama Railway's freight tonnage by 52.7 per cent between fiscal 1928 and fiscal 1930; once the Inotani extension opened and the mine tramway was rerouted to Inotani in 1931, all Kamioka freight was handled there instead, and the Toyama Railway's Minami-Toyama–Sasazu line closed in 1933.