Station

Asumomae

アスモ前

Asumomae
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Asumomae Station was established on 15 March 1987 on the Tenryū Hamanako Line at the time JNR's former Futamata Line was transferred to the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Railroad. The name commemorates ASMO Co., an automotive components maker headquartered nearby; even after ASMO was absorbed into its parent Denso on 1 April 2018 the station retained its name, citing renaming costs and a lack of demand from either company. Denso later purchased naming rights for the station, displaying the secondary name "Denso's Motor Production Site" from 1 March 2024 through 31 March 2026. The unstaffed halt has a single side platform serving one bidirectional track and sits 66.7 km from the Kakegawa terminus.

Notes

Because the name can be read as "asu mo mae" ("tomorrow too, forward"), the station has been promoted as Japan's most optimistic-sounding station name, and good-luck station-name keychains are sold as souvenirs.

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