Keirinjomae (Toyama)

History

Keirinjōmae Station opened on 18 April 1959 as a temporary halt of the Kanazawa Railway Management Bureau, set up after surveys by Katō Hiroaki, head of Toyama Locomotive Depot, suggesting passenger demand existed for one. It was inherited by JR West on 1 April 1987 and upgraded to a temporary station, with operating-kilometres set on 10 March 1990; during the JNR and JR West era it sold tickets only on Toyama Keirin race days. The transfer of the Toyama-Kō Line to the third-sector Toyama Light Rail saw the station closed as a JR West station on 1 March 2006 and reopened as a regular Toyama Light Rail stop on 29 April 2006. Toyama Light Rail merged into Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020. The current 42 m² steel-framed waiting room was completed on 19 June 1993.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The station's name comes from its position next to the Toyama Keirin (bicycle-racing) velodrome; during the JNR and JR West eras it operated only on race days, becoming a year-round stop only after light-rail conversion in 2006.