History
Toyooka Station opened on 1 June 1940 as Nobe Station — a general station for both passengers and freight — when the Ministry of Railways extended its Futamata Line from Tōtōmi-Mori to Kanasashi, in Shinkai, Iwata, Shizuoka. The station name was derived from the former Toyora-mura. Enshū Railway diesel railcars ran through from Nishi-Kashima via Nobe to Tōtōmi-Mori from 16 May 1961, and the service was withdrawn on 1 October 1966. Freight handling ceased on 1 February 1964 and parcel handling on 1 June 1970. The station became unstaffed on 6 February 1980. On 15 March 1987 the Futamata Line became a third-sector railway, and the station passed to the Tenryū Hamanako Railroad and was renamed Toyooka. Soon afterward the down-line platform was withdrawn and the down track became a passing siding; it was restored to platform use on 22 December 2002, returning the station to passing-loop status, and a new building combined with the Toyooka-mura Chamber of Commerce was completed on 18 February 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Toyooka — known until 1987 as Nobe — was a tablet-exchange crossing station in its Futamata Line days, with tablet-catchers fitted to handle through freight trains.