History
Tomoe Station opened on 31 July 1913 with the inauguration of the Yōrō Railway between Yōrō and Ikeno, in present-day Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, and now lies 37.4 km from the opposite terminus at Kuwana. Its owner changed repeatedly through Japan's interwar private-railway consolidations: Ibigawa Electric (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric Railway (1929), Yōrō Electric (1936), Sangū Express (1940), Kansai Express (1941), and Kinki Nippon Railway in 1944. On 1 October 2007 operations were spun off from Kintetsu to the present-day Yōrō Railway. The station retains a side platform and an island platform; one face of the island is out of service, the overhead wire removed. Tomoe has no station building and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tomoe has passed through eight different operators since opening in 1913 — Ibigawa Electric, Yōrō Electric Railway, Ise Electric, Yōrō Electric, Sangū Express, Kansai Express, Kinki Nippon Railway, and the present-day Yōrō Railway — without ever changing its name.