History
Etchū-Nakajima Station is on the Toyama Chihō Railway Toyama-kō Line in Nakajima 3-chōme, Toyama, with station number C32. It opened on 23 July 1924 as Okuda-Nakajima Stop of the Fugan Railway. After takeovers by Toyama Electric Railway (1941) and Toyama Chihō Railway (1943), the line was nationalised on 1 June 1943 and the station was renamed Etchū-Nakajima. The 1924 wooden station building was retained until the 1980 renewal when it was relocated to the Tōfukujino Nature Park in Namerikawa, where it now serves as the park's Tōfukujino-Shizenkōen-eki ticket office. The station became unstaffed on 1 October 1972, came under JR West on 1 April 1987, was withdrawn from JR West on 1 March 2006, reopened as Toyama Light Rail on 29 April 2006, and reverted to Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Etchū-Nakajima's 1924 wooden station building did not go to demolition when the platform was renewed in 1980 — it was instead disassembled and rebuilt at the Tōfukujino Nature Park in Namerikawa, where it now sells park entry tickets under the new signage "Tōfukujino-Shizenkōen-eki".