History
Aimi Station is an infill station on the Tokaido Main Line between Koda and Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture, opened on 17 March 2012. Local efforts to place a station here date back to a 1900 petition organised by villagers of the old Aimi village, but those plans were redirected to the nearby Koda Station, which opened in 1908. A renewed campaign began in 1989, and on 1 March 2007 the town of Koda, the local land-readjustment association and JR Central signed an agreement to plan a new station. Construction was approved by the Koda town council in October 2008, work began in December 2009, the official name was decided on 14 July 2011, and the station opened the following March. JR ticket-sales windows closed on 30 September 2017 and the station became fully unattended on 1 October 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Aimi marks the second time the same community succeeded in lobbying for a station: an 1900-era movement helped produce nearby Koda Station in 1908, and a follow-up campaign launched in 1989 produced the present station 23 years later.