History
Tōei Station opened on 21 December 1933 as Miwamura Station (三輪村駅), the temporary terminus of the privately built Sanshin Railway extending from Mikawa-Kawai. It was renamed Sanshin-Miwa Station in 1934 once the line reached Saku (now Chūbu-Tenryū), making the station a through stop. Nationalisation of the Sanshin Railway on 1 August 1943 incorporated it into the Iida Line under JNR, and the station was renamed Mikawa-Nagaoka. It assumed its present name on 20 December 1956. Freight handling ended on 1 December 1971 and luggage handling on 1 February 1984; the station was destaffed on 1 April 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central. A new station building modelled on the demon masks of the local "Hana Matsuri" festival opened on 28 February 1992. The station serves Tōei in Aichi Prefecture and was named one of the Top 100 Stations of Chūbu in 2002.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1992 station building was designed in the shape of a demon mask used in the local Hana Matsuri festival, an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; JR Central paid 6 million yen towards waiting-room components, while Tōei town funded the remaining 24 million yen.