Station

Tokusawa

徳沢

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Tokusawa
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Timetable information

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

Location

History

Tokusawa Station opened on 1 November 1914 when the Railway Agency's Iwakoshi Line was extended between Nozawa and Tsugawa, on what is now the Ban'etsu West Line. Freight handling ended on 1 September 1972. The station was destaffed and switched to simple contract operation on 28 February 1983, with parcel service ending the same day, and the present concrete combined-use building was completed on 24 February 1984. Control passed to JR East at JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation. The building also houses a Nishi-Aizu town office branch and a small post office, and the station is the nearest to the Yaheishirō trailhead for Mount Iide.

Notes

Until around the early 1960s, a roughly 20-kilometre trolley line ran from Tokusawa along the Oku River to the hamlet of Yaheishirō, carrying lumber bound for export to the United States.

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