Station

Torisawa

鳥沢

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Torisawa
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Timetable information

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

Location

History

Torisawa Station opened on 1 June 1902 as a passenger and freight stop on the Chūō Line in Ōtsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, 81.2 kilometres from Tokyo Station. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001, and the staffed ticket window closed on 31 May 2009. The wooden station building was rebuilt in stages from November 2015: the station became unattended on 1 December 2015, and a new building was completed and opened on 2 March 2016, with the old structure demolished thereafter. From 1 October 2019 the railway has appointed an honorary station master, a JR East retiree commissioned as a volunteer to carry out beautification work at the station and in its surroundings.

Notes

The 2016 rebuild left the new station without public toilets; station users were at first allowed to use the toilets at a nearby elementary school's swimming pool, and from June 2016 a temporary toilet stood on the school grounds, until the city of Ōtsuki opened a public lavatory in the station forecourt on 15 September 2017.

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