History
Mikawa-Ichinomiya Station opened on 22 July 1897 as Ichinomiya Station, an extension of the private Toyokawa Railway from Toyokawa toward the area then served by no rail line. It was renamed to its present form on 1 January 1916 to remove the collision with three other Ichinomiya stations elsewhere in the country, all of which were renamed the same day. The Toyokawa Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways Iida Line. Freight handling ended in December 1971, and the station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987. A shrine-style station building, evoking the nearby Toga Shrine, was completed on 19 December 1990, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The shrine-style station building reflects the station's role as the nearest stop to Toga Shrine, the ichinomiya (first-ranked Shinto shrine) of the former Mikawa Province.