History
Setoshi Station opened on 31 January 1988 in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, when the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway Company began revenue service on its Okazaki to Kozoji line. The station had earlier been planned as a stop on the Japanese National Railways Okata and Seto lines, with provisions for a four-track, two-platform interchange where an unbuilt extension to Tajimi was to branch off. In June 1979 the Ministry of Transport froze the construction plans, citing projected deficits, and the line was eventually completed by the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway. The single-platform layout was rebuilt to its present two-platform form when the Seto-shi to Kozoji segment was double-tracked on 3 October 2004. Automated turnstiles followed on 24 September 2008 and TOICA was introduced on 2 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The platform on the Kozoji side still preserves a V-shaped roof and stub track bed from the unbuilt 20-kilometre extension to Tajimi, kept in case the Tajimi-line plan is ever revived.