History
Iwasehama Station is the terminus of the Toyama Chihō Railway Toyama-kō Line in Iwase Tenjin-chō, Toyama, with station number C39. It opened on 23 July 1924 as Iwase-kō Station of the Fugan Railway, initially freight-only; passenger service began on 15 December 1927 and the station was renamed Iwasehama on 1 January 1938 and moved to its current site in April 1939. After takeovers by Toyama Electric Railway (1941) and Toyama Chihō Railway (1943), the line was nationalised on 1 June 1943 and the station served as a Ministry of Railways (later JNR) Toyama-kō Line station, passing to JR West in 1987. It became a Toyama Light Rail station on 29 April 2006 and reverted to Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020 when Toyama Light Rail was absorbed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Iwasehama's pre-light-rail station hosted up to 2,200 passengers a day in the late 1960s and was the busiest stop on the Fushiki branch of the Toyama-kō Line; when the line was converted to LRT in 2006 the platform was rebuilt as a low-floor design and a bus terminal was added on the platform itself so that feeder buses could connect cross-platform.