History
Tehara Station opened on 5 November 1922 as a new station on the Japanese Government Railway's Kusatsu Line between Ishibe and Kusatsu, in what is now Rittō, Shiga Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and luggage handling on 20 October 1971, when the station was destaffed. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under West Japan Railway Company. Automated turnstiles were installed on 19 January 1999 and ICOCA IC-card service began on 1 November 2003. The current elevated station building, modelled on an irimoya-roofed structure echoing the old Tōkaidō, opened on 13 November 2004, accompanied by raised platforms and elevators on both platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1956, when Kusatsu Station was transferred out of Rittō's municipal boundaries, until the 1991 opening of Rittō Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line, Tehara was the sole railway station within what was then Rittō Town.