History
Tōkai Station is an East Japan Railway (JR East) Jōban Line station in Funaishikawa-Ekinishi 1-chōme, Tōkai-mura, Naka District, Ibaraki Prefecture. It opened on 1 April 1898 as Ishigami Station on Nippon Railway, was nationalised in 1906, was renamed Tōkai on 1 April 1957, and was transferred to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. An elevated station building entered service on 20 January 1994, Suica was enabled on 16 October 2004, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 17 March 2023.
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
On 29 December 1961 the up express train 'Iwate' overran a switch at Tōkai Station, derailing locomotive C62 21 and two coaches. The fireman died and five others were injured — one of the major postwar accidents on the Jōban Line.