History
Ainoki Station opened on 1 September 1931 as Kyōden Station (経田駅) on the Toyama Electric Railway, about 700 metres further toward Kamiichi than its present site. It was renamed Ainoki on 1 October 1936 to avoid a clash with another Kyōden Station opened that day on the Uozu line. Toyama Electric Railway was absorbed into Toyama Chihō Railway during the 1943 prefectural transport consolidation, and Ainoki Station itself was closed on 18 May 1944. The station reopened at its current location in Kamiichi as a tram stop on 15 April 1949. It is an unattended single-platform halt 11.3 kilometres from Dentetsu-Toyama on the Main Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name change in 1936 was driven by a collision: on the same day a separate Kyōden Station opened on a different Toyama Electric Railway line, forcing a rename.