History
Nodajo Station opened on 1 January 1918 on the privately owned Toyokawa Railway, an interurban that ran from Toyohashi to Oumi and is now the southern half of the JR Iida Line. The station name comes from the nearby Noda Castle, the site of a significant siege in 1573 during the Sengoku period. On 1 August 1943 the Toyokawa Railway was nationalised together with several neighbouring lines, becoming part of the JGR Iida Line. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1 December 1971, and the station became unattended in February 1984 as centralised traffic control was introduced on the southern Iida Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR Central, and TOICA was finally introduced on 15 March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is named after Noda Castle, and the neighbouring Yokohama Rubber plant is decorated with giant tyre sculptures, including a Godzilla figure, in a small public space called Tyre Land.