Tōjō (Aichi)

History

Tōjō Station opened on 25 April 1898 on the now-defunct Toyokawa Railway, the private line that ran what is today the southern part of the JR Iida Line. The station was set up at the same time the Toyokawa Railway extended from Mikawa-Ichinomiya to Shinshiro. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1943 to form the JGR Iida Line. Scheduled freight operations ended on 1 March 1963 with car-load freight withdrawn; remaining freight and parcels handling stopped on 1 December 1971. The station was made unattended on 24 February 1984 as CTC was introduced on the southern Iida Line. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central, and TOICA support began on 15 March 2025.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The station sits in Tōjō-chō Tōkyōji — "Tōkyōji," written 東京寺, is one of the very few residential addresses in Japan that share their reading with the metropolis of Tokyo.