Kawase Station

Kawase Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hikone, Shiga, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company.

Lines

Kawase Station is served by the Biwako Line portion of the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is 12.4 kilometers from and 458.3 kilometers from,

The station consists of one side platform and one island platforms connected by an elevated concourse. The station building has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

The station opened on 1 May 1896 as a station for passengers and cargo on the Japanese Government Railway Tōkaidō Line, which became the Japan National Railways after World War II. Freight operations were discontinued on 15 March 1972. The station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 due to the privatization of JNR. A new station building was completed in 1998.
Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Kawase being assigned station number JR-A15.

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 3405 passengers daily.