History
Toyokawa Station opened on 15 July 1897 as the terminus of the private Toyokawa Railway extension from Toyohashi; it ceased to be a terminus a week later when the line was extended to Mikawa-Ichinomiya. A three-storey reinforced-concrete station building was completed in December 1931. The Nishi-Toyokawa branch line opened on 12 May 1942 to serve the wartime Toyokawa Naval Arsenal. The Toyokawa Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and absorbed into the Iida Line. The Nishi-Toyokawa branch was abolished on 15 September 1956. Freight handling ended on 21 January 1984, and luggage handling on 14 March 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, passenger services passed to JR Central while freight became JR Freight; a temporary station replaced the 1931 building on 4 June 1995, and the present third-generation overhead station with east–west free passage opened on 17 December 1996.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
JR Toyokawa Station and Meitetsu's Toyokawa-inari Station stand side-by-side and are the only JR–Meitetsu transfer point inside Toyokawa City. Despite this physical adjacency, no connecting track was ever laid between them, so rolling stock built at the Nippon Sharyō Toyokawa Works has to be moved to the Meitetsu network via a roundabout 100-kilometre route through Toyohashi, Kasadera, the Nagoya-Rinkai Railway's Tōkō Line, and Meitetsu's own Chikkō line.