History
Idagawa Station opened on 20 May 1929 on the Japanese Government Railways' Kansai Main Line, when the section connecting Suzuka with Kameyama was completed. It sits 55.3 kilometres from the Nagoya terminus. Freight handling ended on 21 February 1961, parcel service and station staffing ended on 11 July 1974, and the station passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. A new station building and forecourt were completed on 1 April 2012, TOICA service began on 2 March 2019, and a ticket vending machine is scheduled for installation on 8 March 2026. JR Central assigned the station number CJ16 in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Idagawa is one of the candidate locations for the future Mie Prefecture stop on the Chūō Shinkansen maglev line.