History
Toyooka Station opened on 10 July 1909 as a terminus of the Imperial Railway Agency extension from Yōka, joining the through route to Kinosaki on 5 September the same year. A line-naming reorganisation placed it on the Bantan Line in October 1909, then on the San'in Main Line from 1 March 1912. The predecessor of the Miyazu (now Miyatoyo) Line reached Toyooka via Kumihama on 15 December 1929. The 1925 Hokutan earthquake destroyed the station and its locomotive depot; the connecting line passed from JNR to KTR on 1 April 1990 and to Willer Trains in 2015. A new bridge-deck station building opened on 13 February 2011, and ICOCA service began on 13 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Departure jingles introduced in December 2006 are oriented around the Oriental white stork ("kōnotori"), reflecting Toyooka's storied reintroduction programme for the bird.