Sakuma Station

Sakuma Station (佐久間駅, Sakuma-eki^?) is a train station on the Iida Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is located 63.5 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

Station history

Sakuma Station was established on November 10, 1936 as the "Sakuma-Masakuboguchi Stop" (佐久間水窪口停留場^?) on the now-defunct Sanshin Railway. Its name was changed to the "Sakuma Stop" in 1938, and it was upgraded to a full station on February 7, 1941. On August 1, 1943, the Sanshin Railway was nationalized along with several other local lines to form the Iida line.

The station was relocated slightly to the west in 1955 as a part of rerouting of the line to avoid the rising waters of the Sakuma Dam. All freight services were discontinued in December 1971 and the station were unmanned from February 1984. Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company. With the opening of the branch of the Hamamatsu City Library on June 22, 1989, the station is again manned.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Iida Line

Layout

Sakuma Station is a manned station with a single elevated side platform. The station building doubles as a branch of the Hamammatsu City Library, and passengers waiting for trains have access to the collection. The station formerly had an island platform, but was rebuilt in 2008.

Adjacent stations

External links

• (Japanese) Iida Line station information