History
Tomari Station opened on 16 April 1910 as the terminus of the Hokuriku Main Line's eastward extension from Uozu. The line reached Ōmi on 15 October 1912, making Tomari an intermediate station. AC electrification of Tomari–Toyama yard arrived on 25 August 1965 and of Tomari–Itoigawa on 30 September 1965; double-tracking through the station was completed in 1967. The current building (single-storey, 329 m²) was finished in March 1973. After the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it became a JR West station. Following the 14 March 2015 extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa, the parallel Hokuriku Main Line was transferred to the third-sector Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and ICOCA became usable on 26 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Tomari is officially an intermediate station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway, it functions as the operational boundary with the Echigo Tokimeki Railway: every Nihonkai Hisui Line train terminates here, and the two operators time their arrivals to the same platform (Track 2) so passengers can transfer on the level.