History
Hagiura-Shōgakkō-mae Station is on the Toyama Chihō Railway Toyama-kō Line in Nishinomiya-chō, Toyama, with station number C36. Its origins go back to a 27 December 1936 signal stop on the Fugan Railway, which became Nichiman-Kōjō-mae Station on 8 February 1939 with passenger service. After private-sector takeovers in 1941 and 1943, the line was nationalised on 1 June 1943 and the station was renamed Ōhirota Station (大広田駅), serving as the Ministry of Railways' Toyama-kō Line stop. It was unstaffed from 1 October 1972, came under JR West in 1987, was rebuilt with a new 37.8 m² building on 8 March 1989, became Toyama Light Rail on 29 April 2006, reverted to Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020, and was renamed Hagiura-Shōgakkō-mae on 21 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 450 m gap between Hagiura-Shōgakkō-mae (formerly Ōhirota) and Higashi-Iwase Station was historically the shortest inter-station distance on any Japanese National Railways or successor JR line — a record the two-stop pair still hold today as the Toyama-kō Line Toyama Chihō stations.