Kashiwabara

Weekday departures: 72/day · Sat & holiday departures: 72/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:43 / 23:45

Busiest hour: 15:00–16:00 (5)

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• Tōkaidō Main Line: Sekigahara ⇄ Ōmi-Nagaoka

Kashiwabara Station opened on 21 February 1900 on the Imperial Government Railways Tōkaidō Line, between Sekigahara and what is now Ōmi-Nagaoka, when a new lower-gradient alignment replaced the original 1883 route that had threaded the mountains via Fukaya to Nagahama. The original line, with its 25-permille continuous climb between Sekigahara and Fukaya, had become a notorious bottleneck; the easier-graded replacement opened in October 1899 and was the basis for the new station here. Freight handling ended on 16 September 1960, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central at the JNR privatisation. A JR all-line ticket window opened in March 1993, and TOICA IC cards became usable on 2 March 2019.

Kashiwabara Station lies about a kilometre from the Gifu border, making it the easternmost JR station in Shiga Prefecture and indeed in the entire Kinki region's two metropolitan prefectures and four prefectures; in the steam-locomotive era when limited expresses Tsubame and Hato ran here, station staff were required to report each train's passing time directly to the JNR head office.