History
Shin-Miyakawa Station opened on 25 June 1913 as Egami Station with the Tateyama Light Railway between Namerikawa and Goishi, in what is now the town of Kamiichi, Toyama Prefecture, originally as a 762 mm narrow-gauge steam line. The station was renamed Miyakawa on 20 February 1921 and then Shin-Miyakawa on 20 May 1924. In 1931 Toyama Electric Railway absorbed the Tateyama Railway and re-gauged and electrified the line at 1,067 mm and 1,500 V. The 1943 wartime merger of Toyama-prefecture railways established Toyama Chihō Railway as the present operator. The station was relocated to its current site on 10 April 1975 for the Hokuriku Expressway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shin-Miyakawa was relocated to its present site in April 1975 to clear the right-of-way for the Hokuriku Expressway being built nearby.