History
Terada Station opened on 15 August 1931 with the simultaneous opening of the Toyama Denki Tetsudō (Toyama Electric Railway) line from 富山田地方駅 (the predecessor of today’s Dentetsu-Toyama Station) past Terada to Kamiichi-guchi, together with a separate branch from Terada to Gohyakuishi. The operator merged into Toyama Chihō Railway on 1 January 1943. The wooden station building dating from 1931 is still in use, with its sign reading "驛田寺" — using the old form 驛 written right-to-left as was the pre-war convention. A large-scale renovation including IC-card-compatible faregates was completed on 23 September 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Terada is the junction where the Tateyama Line branches off the Main Line, but the planned delta connection between the two lines was never completed. As a result, the Alpine Limited Express between Tateyama and Unazuki-Onsen must reverse direction at Terada — it discharges passengers on the up-Line platform of the Tateyama Line, then reverses to the down-Main-Line track to board passengers heading toward Unazuki-Onsen (and vice versa).