History
Wakabayashi Station is a Meitetsu Mikawa Line station in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, 6.2 kilometres from the line's terminus at Chiryū. It opened on 5 July 1920 as a stop on the privately operated Mikawa Railway, which was absorbed into the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on 1 June 1941. The station building was rebuilt in 1962, freight operations ended in 1965, and the centralised station-management system together with the Tranpass IC scheme arrived on 1 October 2003. The manaca IC card began service in 2011 and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 February 2021. A 2.2-kilometre continuous grade-separation project around the station moved trains onto a temporary alignment in March 2023 and onto an elevated alignment on 28 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the 2026 switch to elevated tracks, trains at the former at-grade Wakabayashi Station ran with right-hand running rather than the Japanese standard left-hand running, an arrangement preserved at the temporary station so that passengers reached the platform via a single level crossing without crossing the tracks.