History
Inarimachi Station opened on 15 August 1931 as part of the Toyama Electric Railway's new line from Toyama-Dejiho to Kamiichiguchi (today Kamiichi), with the station building shared between Toyama Electric Railway and the existing Toyama Railway. After the Toyama Railway was dissolved in April 1933 its track section was transferred to Funan Railway, which Toyama Electric absorbed in December 1941. On 1 January 1943 the wartime consolidation of Toyama prefecture transport companies created the Toyama Chihō Railway, and the section north of Inarimachi became the Main Line while the section south to Minami-Toyama became the Funan Line. The Funan Line was electrified on 20 June 1943 and the Main Line stretch into Inarimachi on 1 June 1946. On 1 April 1969 the Funan Line was renamed the Fujikoshi Line and freight operations were withdrawn outside private sidings; the last freight workings on those sidings ended on 1 September 1979. ATS was installed on 29 March 1999.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Inarimachi has the Toyama Chihō Railway's Inarimachi Technical Centre attached on its east side, between the Main Line and Fujikoshi/Kamidaki Line tracks; the depot performs periodic inspections, repairs, air-conditioning conversions and used-car rebuilds for the company's electric stock and also handles the periodic inspections of the Toyama tramway fleet, which is hauled in by diesel locomotive between Minami-Toyama and the depot. The station and depot were filming locations for the 2010 film 'Railways: Aiwo Tsutaerarenai Otonatachi e'.