History
Kasugai Station opened on 16 December 1927 as Toriimatsu Station, a citizen-petitioned stop on the Chuo Main Line midway between Katsugawa and Kozoji. Locals in the village of Toriimatsu had donated the station land to win Railway Ministry approval the previous year. The station was renamed Kasugai on 1 May 1946, three years after a wartime municipal merger created the present city. It passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways and to JR Freight as a depot serving the adjacent Oji Paper mill. A new elevated station building with a north-south pedestrian concourse opened on 30 October 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A surviving siding from the Toriimatsu era still feeds the Oji Paper mill; the spur runs over the alignment of a former Imperial Japanese Army arsenal branch that produced the Type 100 submachine gun until 1945.