History
Tōjō Station opened on 25 November 1930 as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Sanshin Line, extended from Yagami, in the town of Tōjō (now part of Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture). Its opening was delayed from a planned summer 1930 start by the so-called Eki-dō ("station road") incident, in which the routing of the access road from the town centre divided the local council. The station became a through stop on 15 June 1935 when the line was extended to Onuka, and was reassigned to the Geibi Line on 1 July 1937. Freight handling ended on 25 December 1983 and the station became part of West Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. Staffed operations were converted to a simple contract on 3 March 2001. The former platform 1 was withdrawn after its footbridge became unusable, leaving a single-platform operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's opening was held back several months by the local "Eki-dō" dispute, a fight over the routing of the road linking town centre to the new station that escalated to brawling inside the town council chamber.