History
Higashi-Ōgaki Station opened on 20 March 1956 with the Japanese National Railways Tarumi Line between Ōgaki and Yagikō, handling both passengers and freight. Freight services were withdrawn on 20 August 1964 and parcel handling ceased on 31 March 1971, at which point the station was de-staffed. On 6 October 1984 the Tarumi Line was transferred to the third-sector Tarumi Railway, which has operated the station ever since. The ground-level station has one island platform serving two tracks. The crossing siding was once dismantled during JNR rationalisation but was reinstated at the 1984 transfer to allow trains to pass. The original mortar-finished station building survives.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The mortar station house preserves the Tarumi Line's original tablet-block instrument, displayed inside the building as a memento of single-track signalling that ended in 1988.