Station

Sawama

沢間

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Sawama
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Sawama Station is an unstaffed halt on the Ōigawa Railway's Ikawa Line in the town of Kawanehon, Shizuoka Prefecture, located 2.4 kilometres from the line's starting point at Senzu. The site dates to 1931 as a stop on the Sumatagawa forestry tramway, with an adjacent freight transfer to the Kawane Electric Ropeway. The current passenger station opened on 1 August 1959, when the Chubu Electric Power industrial line was transferred to Ōigawa Railway and rebranded as the Ikawa Line. The station building was demolished on 3 December 2018 due to age, and a small waiting shelter matching nearby Tsuchimoto and Kanzō stations entered use on 15 January 2019.

Notes

Fiscal-2017 ridership averaged 0.4 boardings per day at this unstaffed stop beside the Ōi River, which now has a single side platform on one track after once being a passing station; traces of the Senzu Forest Railway that branched off on the Senzu side until 1969 are still visible around the station.

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