History
Inazawa Station opened on 1904-08-05 as a Japanese Government Railway stop on the Tōkaidō Line, the result of a long petitioning campaign by residents of nearby Shimotsu and Inazawa towns. A second station building was completed in March 1953, and electrification reached the station from Nagoya in November 1953 and onward to Maibara in July 1955. Privatisation on 1987-04-01 split control between JR Central and JR Freight. The current bridge-style station building and free passageway opened on 2000-04-22, and station number CA71 was added in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The full 5.85 km Inazawa complex once held one of Japan's three largest classification yards; it closed in November 1986 and the freed-up land became part of the surrounding redevelopment.