History
Ogakie Station opened on 5 February 1914 as part of the privately owned Mikawa Railway. From May to September 1927 a 2.5 km industrial siding ran from here to a Pacific-crossing radio-telegraph transmitter at Isami, used only briefly during construction. Mikawa Railway was absorbed by Meitetsu on 1 June 1941, freight handling ended on 25 May 1977, and on 6 July 2002 the route between the station and the adjacent Maekawa bridge was double-tracked in connection with river works. A new station building opened on 14 September 2005 alongside the Tranpass system, and the depot has been unstaffed since. The manaca IC card arrived on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass closed on 29 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Nine ornamental roof tiles bearing the Mikawa Railway crest from the old depot survive after the 2005 rebuild — they are now held by the Meitetsu archive and the Takahama and Kariya local history museums.