History
Iwakura Station opened on 6 August 1912 in Iwakura, Aichi Prefecture, as the junction of the Ichinomiya Line and the Inuyama Line. The Komaki Line, connecting to Komaki, opened from this station on 23 September 1920. On 12 August 1941 the section of the Ichinomiya Line south of Iwakura was absorbed into the Inuyama Line, and on 16 May 1948 the Komaki Line was renamed the Iwakura Branch Line when a new Komaki Line was created from the former Daizōne Line branch. Freight service ended in fiscal 1963, the Iwakura Branch closed on 26 April 1964, and the Ichinomiya Line itself closed on 25 April 1965. On 11 September 1965 a four-storey station building opened on the east side, housing the ticket gates, restaurants, Meitetsu staff dormitories, and apartments. Limited expresses other than seat-reserved specials began stopping from 25 December 1970. The station was put underground and the platforms reconfigured to take eight-car trains on 9 March 1985, automatic ticket gates were installed in May 1987, and the redevelopment building Sakurando Iwakura opened with platform elevators in October 2009. The Manaca IC card came into service on 11 February 2011, replacing the older Tranpass system on 29 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Iwakura had long been the busiest station on the Inuyama Line, but in recent years ridership has fallen and Kōnan Station has overtaken it into the second position; in FY 2021 it briefly dropped to third place after also being passed by Nishiharu Station.