History
Mikawa-Miya Station was a petition station whose construction the residents of Miya district campaigned for from 1908. After three petitions to the Railway Bureau (1908, 1909, 1923), the station opened on 3 July 1929 on the Tōkaidō Main Line, with land-acquisition and construction costs of 278,000 yen funded by donations from local residents. The station sits in Miyamachi-Ueno, Gamagōri, Aichi Prefecture, 308.3 km from Tokyo along the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is the closest rail access to the Miya hot-spring resort. It is served by local trains, by section-rapid services in the early morning and late evening, and by roughly half of all rapid and new-rapid services — about three trains an hour in each direction during the day. Until the December 1999 timetable revision, all regular rapid trains stopped (new-rapid services already passed through).
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
Mikawa-Miya is a petition station: its land-acquisition and construction costs of 278,000 yen were raised entirely from donations by the residents of Miya district in the 1920s.