History
Otōbashi Station opened on 16 March 1995 as an infill station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Nagoya's Nakagawa Ward, built on the site of a former JR Freight terminal. The project was championed by the Japan Racing Association, whose nearby "Winds Nagoya" off-track betting hall produced car-congestion problems that an in-town rail link was meant to solve; JRA funded roughly ¥2.0 billion of the ¥2.34-billion build cost under a petition-station arrangement. TOICA support arrived on 25 November 2006, and a lift and accessible toilet followed on 13 March 2009. Station number CA67 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although most stopping services pass through, on Central GI race days (Japanese Derby, Arima Kinen and similar) special rapids stop here at thirty-minute intervals to serve the Winds Nagoya betting hall.