History
Mikawa-Makihara Station opened on 1 February 1923 on the now-defunct private Hōraiji Railway, which threaded the upper Toyokawa valley. On 1 August 1943 the Hōraiji Railway and the Sanshin Railway were nationalised, together forming what was renamed the Iida Line under Japanese Government Railways. Scheduled freight operations ceased in 1971 and the station was destaffed from 1984. With the dismantling of JNR on 1 April 1987, Mikawa-Makihara came under JR Central. The station retains a single island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing, with TOICA turnstiles in an otherwise unattended building; it sits in an isolated rural pocket of Shinshiro 40.6 kilometres along the line from Toyohashi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.