History
Higashi-Shimmachi Station opened on 1 January 1914 as a station on the privately built Toyokawa Railway, 14 years after the Shinshiro-Ōmi section opened in 1900. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as the JGR Iida Line. Freight and parcels handling ended on 1 December 1971 and the station became a contracted operation. It passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. A new station building opened in 2008, and from 1 April 2012 the contract for window operations was transferred from Tōkai Kōtsū Jigyō to Shinshiro City, which has continued to operate the simple-contract window since. TOICA IC card service began on 15 March 2025. The station has a single side platform and the building has an output window but no automated ticket machine.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When JR Tōkai planned to end the contracted window operation in 2012, Shinshiro City stepped in and budgeted a "ticket sales project" so that the window could keep operating under a simple-contract arrangement.