History
Dentetsu-Toyama opened on 3 October 1931 when the Toyama Denki Tetsudō built the 1,067 mm gauge, 1,500 V DC electrified line between this station and Toyama-Tajikata, an extension that began through-running to Namerikawa a month later. The station subsequently became the Toyama Chihō Railway's Honsen terminus through a chain of corporate changes: in April 1933 the separate Toyama Tetsudō dissolved and transferred its Toyama–Horikawa-shin section to Funan Tetsudō; in December 1941 Toyama Denki absorbed Funan Tetsudō; and on 1 January 1943 Toyama Denki merged with the remaining Toyama-prefecture railways and renamed itself Toyama Chihō Railway. The station building was destroyed in the 2 August 1945 Toyama Air Raid and rebuilt as a wood-frame, two-storey structure on 31 October 1946. The current Esta department store and station complex was completed on 1 November 1986 and opened to the public on 5 December 1987. From 17 March 2012, automatic ticket gates accepting the ecomyca IC card were introduced. On 20 May 2023 a groundbreaking was held for a project to elevate roughly 700 m of track east of the station, originally targeted for fiscal 2026 but now slated for fiscal 2028 because of material-cost escalation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Toyama Chihō Railway installed its very first automatic ticket-vending machine at this station on 1 September 1957, the first such machine on the company's network.