History
Mikawa-Toyota Station is an Aichi Loop Railway station in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, 15.9 km from the line's origin at Okazaki (station number 10). It opened on 1937-12-27 as a station on the privately held Mikawa Railway Okazaki Line. The Mikawa Railway was merged into Meitetsu on 1941-06-01, making it a Meitetsu Okazaki Line station. The station was renamed Toyota-Jidōsha-mae (トヨタ自動車前駅) on 1959-10-01, and the line beyond it to Koromo was discontinued on 1973-08-30. It returned to service on 1976-04-26 when the JNR Okata Line opened along the former Meitetsu alignment, passed briefly to JR Central in 1987, and was transferred to the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway on 1988-01-31, at which point it reverted to its original name.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current Mikawa-Toyota name actually revives an older name in use before 1959, when the predecessor Meitetsu station was renamed Toyota-Jidōsha-mae; the original name was restored when the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway took over in 1988.