Senzu

Kawaneonsen-Sasamado – Senzu: suspended from 24 September 2022 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Oigawa Main Line →

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

Senzu Station opened on December 1, 1931 as one of the original stations on the Ōigawa Main Line. The connecting Sumatagawa forestry tramway began running through to Senzu in May 1935 over the industrial railway that would later become the Ikawa Line, and that industrial line was widened from 762 mm gauge to 1,067 mm in November 1936, a three-rail section being retained on the Senzu - Sawama segment. The industrial line passed to Ōigawa Railway as the Ikawa Line on August 1, 1959. A manually operated turntable transferred from the former Higashi-Akatani Station was installed on July 20, 1980, and has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since August 28, 2001. The current lodge-style station building was completed on July 30, 1992. After Typhoon No. 15 caused landslide damage in September 2022, service on both lines was suspended; the Ikawa Line returned to full operation on October 22, 2022, while the Ōigawa Main Line remains out of service, although a train ran from Senzu as far as Aobe in November 2024, the first in two years.

The manually operated Ransomes & Rapier turntable at Senzu was imported from Britain in 1897, one of fifteen identical 50-foot (15.2 m) tables brought in at that time; today station staff and the locomotive crew — five people in all — turn it by hand to reverse the line's steam locomotives.