History
Kitano-Masuzuka Station opened on 1 October 1970 as a freight station on the Japanese National Railways Okata Line, primarily serving Toyota Motors and affiliated factories nearby. Scheduled passenger service began on 26 April 1976 with the station unstaffed. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1985 after the final automotive consist between here and Sendai-Port/Shime was discontinued. JR Central took over on 1 April 1987, and the station was transferred to the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway Company on 31 January 1988. An additional track was laid and the layout expanded to two island platforms on 23 December 2001 in preparation for Expo 2005. The station became staffed again in April 2008 and gained TOICA acceptance on 2 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At its 1970s peak the station functioned as the JNR Toyota automobile-export hub, dispatching ten round-trip dedicated freight trains a day and handling roughly 140 wagons and 1,300 finished cars daily under the name "Kamigō Wagon Centre".