History
Tarui Station opened on 25 May 1884 with the government railway's extension between Ōgaki and Sekigahara, in present-day Tarui, Gifu Prefecture. The Ōgaki - Tarui segment was double-tracked in 1901 and Tarui - Sekigahara in 1902. On 11 October 1944 a bypass line opened to allow trains to climb to Sekigahara without traversing Tarui, leaving Tarui only on the eastbound through track and giving rise to a separate Shin-Tarui ("new Tarui") Station on the bypass; on 1 November 1946 the Tarui Branch reopened the old western alignment to local service. Shin-Tarui closed on 1 November 1986 and JR Central inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. A bridge-style station building opened on 4 March 1995, TOICA acceptance began on 25 November 2006, and station numbering (CA78) was introduced in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Between 1944 and 1986 westbound expresses and freight trains skipped Tarui altogether and instead called at the long-vanished Shin-Tarui Station on the bypass, three kilometres north of Tarui's town centre.