History
Towata Station opened on 20 April 1960 as a halt on the Japan National Railways Futamata Line in the town of Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture. When the Futamata Line was transferred to a third-sector operator on 15 March 1987, the station came under the Tenryū Hamanako Railroad, which renamed the line the Tenryū Hamanako Line. Sited 12.0 kilometres from the Kakegawa starting point, the station has a single elevated side platform built on an embankment, with a small platform-level shelter connected to the street by stairs. It has been unattended throughout its service life, and reverted to fully unstaffed operation on 1 November 2009.
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
Although named for Towata village across the Ota River, parts of the town centre of Mori — including the protected Jiro persimmon parent tree — are actually closer to Towata than to neighbouring Enshū-Mori Station.