History
Tomida Station (CJ09) is on the JR Central Kansai Main Line in Tomida 3-chōme, Yokkaichi, Mie, 31.7 km from Nagoya, and is also a freight-handling station for the freight-only Sangi Line operated by Sangi Railway. It opened on 5 July 1894 with the Kuwana Provisional Station–Yokkaichi extension of the Kansai Railway, was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and the Sangi Railway began running freight into the station on 23 July 1931. JR Central inherited the JNR side on 1 April 1987, TOICA was introduced on 25 November 2006, and the station became unstaffed on 1 April 2011 when the simple-commission staffing arrangement ended. Most Sangi Railway passenger trains moved to Kintetsu-Tomida after the 1970 Kintetsu connecting-line opening, and the Sangi passenger service to Tomida was abolished on 14 March 1985.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Magnetic-stripe Marusu tickets issued for Tomida Station print as "(関) Tomida" — the 関 prefix marks the Kansai Main Line — because of the homonym JR East Tomida Station (富田駅, tomita-eki) on the Ryōmō Line in Tochigi; Sangi Railway in turn used to call this station "Kokutetsu Tomida" in its timetables to distinguish it from Kintetsu-Tomida.