History
Tokawa Station opened on 5 July 1923 as the southern terminus of what is now the Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture. Service was suspended in July 1945 after the station was damaged in an air raid and resumed that December. The operator was renamed Chōshi Electric Railway in 1948. The wooden station building, in use since opening, has been repeatedly repaired rather than replaced, and the platform was extended in 2009 to accommodate longer trains. In February 2016 the firm Waseda House acquired naming rights, giving the stop the nickname "Arigatō" ("thank-you").
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building has stood since opening in 1923 and has been used as a filming location, including for the 1985 NHK morning drama Miotsukushi.