Mikawa-Tōgō

History

Mikawa-Tōgō Station opened on 15 December 1900 as Kawaji Station on the private Toyokawa Railway, three months after the line was extended from Shinshiro to Ōmi. It was renamed on 1 August 1943 when the Toyokawa Railway was nationalised into the Japanese Government Railways Iida Line, because the newly merged line also contained another Kawaji Station in Nagano. Freight handling ended in stages and the station became unstaffed in 1984 with the introduction of centralised traffic control on the southern Iida Line. It passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. The current building, modelled on a wooden palisade from the nearby Battle of Nagashino, was completed around 2007, and TOICA IC card service began on 15 March 2025.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The current station building carries a replica wooden palisade modelled on the defences used by the Oda-Tokugawa alliance at the Battle of Nagashino, which was fought nearby in 1575.