History
Jōgawara Station is on the Toyama Chihō Railway Toyama-kō Line in Jōgawara 3-chōme, Toyama, with station number C33. It opened on 23 July 1924 with the Fugan Railway, equipped from the start with a depot, substation and crew room as the line's operating base. After takeovers by Toyama Electric Railway (1941) and Toyama Chihō Railway (1943), the line was nationalised on 1 June 1943 and the Jōgawara depot continued as the Toyama-kō Line's car base; the Toyama Transport Section was set up here on 16 January 1955 and the Toyama First Depot Jōgawara Branch survived until March 1985. The station came under JR West on 1 April 1987, was withdrawn from JR West on 1 March 2006, and reopened as Toyama Light Rail on 29 April 2006. A new Toyama Light Rail head office and depot were built next door, complete with management room and four-car-train capacity; the company reverted to Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Jōgawara was rebuilt during the 2005–2006 Toyama Light Rail project as the new operator's headquarters: a 464 m² two-storey HQ-and-control building was completed on 1 March 2006 alongside a four-train-capacity depot, all at a cost of 331.8 million yen — making it the only Toyama-kō Line stop with a passing loop, depot and offices on site.