History
Okkawa Station opened on 7 December 1933 as a passenger-only Japanese Government Railways station on the Taketoyo Line, between Kameizaki and Handa, more than 40 years after the line itself opened in 1886. It was added together with new railcar services aimed at competing with the parallel Chita Railway (today's Meitetsu Kōwa Line). Freight handling began on 1 April 1944 and ended on 15 November 1975; parcels followed in February 1984. The station passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation and was fully unstaffed from 10 March 1989. A new station building opened in March 2006 and TOICA IC card service began the same November. Station numbering CE06 was introduced in March 2018. In the 1990s the station was studied as a junction for a possible airport access line to Centrair, but no construction has followed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In the 1990s, the station was a serious candidate junction for a never-built rail link to Chubu Centrair International Airport, with planners pricing the new construction at around 100-130 billion yen before the scheme was shelved.