History
Toda Station opened on 30 September 1985 as a Japanese National Railways station on the new commuter route now branded the Saikyo Line. JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Automatic fare gates began service on 2 July 1992, the “Beans Toda” station building opened on 15 April 1995, and Suica was introduced on 18 November 2001. From 1 August 2007 the up platform has used an arrangement of the Toda city song “Aa Wagatoda-shi” as a departure melody, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket window closed on 31 October that year. After Summit Store Toda closed in March 2022, an Olympic outlet opened on the same plot on 10 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On JR tickets the station is sometimes prefixed (Kita-) to distinguish it from “Heta” Station of the same kanji on the Sanyo Main Line.