History
Taketoyo Station opened on 1 March 1886 as a passenger and freight station on the Japanese Government Railways' Atsuta–Taketoyo line, one of the oldest stations in Aichi Prefecture. The line was built to land construction materials for the Tōkaidō railway, and a roughly 140-metre timber pier next to the station served as the unloading wharf. The station was moved to its present site on 1 June 1892, with freight transferred to a separate Taketoyo-Minato Station from 1930 (closed 1965). Freight handling at Taketoyo itself ceased on 10 January 1984. JR Central inherited the station on 1 April 1987, TOICA service began on 25 November 2006, the station became unstaffed on 1 October 2013, and the Taketoyo Line was electrified on 1 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On 25 September 1953 a station hand, Hiroshi Takahashi, ran towards the next station with a flare to stop an incoming train after a typhoon breached the seawall. The train stopped 400 metres short of the washed-out track, but Takahashi himself was lost; his bronze bust at the station was raised the following year by donations from railway workers and schoolchildren across Japan.