History
The first Ogawa Station opened in March 1886 with the Taketoyo Line, then a Atsuta-Taketoyo route, but was closed on 10 September 1887 when Ōbu Station was opened just north as the line's connection to the new Tōkaidō trunk. After thirteen years of village petitions, a second Ogawa Station reopened on 1 March 1900 as a passenger-only stop, gaining freight handling from 1 April 1903 and a new station building that month. Freight ceased on 15 November 1975 and parcels on 1 February 1984. JR Central succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987. The station and the surrounding section were elevated on 19 February 1995 — making Ogawa the only elevated station on the Taketoyo Line — TOICA service began on 25 November 2006, the station was destaffed on 1 October 2013, and elevators and a multipurpose toilet entered service on 18 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ogawa is the only elevated station on the Taketoyo Line, the result of a 1995 grade-separation project; the previous ground-level station shared the same opposed-platform layout still in use today.