History
Chigozuka Station opened on 15 August 1931 as Urada Station (浦田駅), a stop on the Toyama Electric Railway in the town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture. It was renamed Chigozuka on 1 October of the same year, after the round kofun burial mound that sits about 700 metres north of the station along the line. The station was closed on 31 October 1942 and reopened sometime after 1946; in October 1971 the operator proposed closure again, but vigorous local protests kept the station in service. It is now an unattended single-platform stop on the Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line, 1.4 kilometres from the starting point at Terada, with only a waiting room on the platform and no station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was named after the Chigozuka kofun, a circular burial mound about 700 metres up the line from the platform that gave the renamed station its identity in October 1931.