History
Aichi-Mito Station first opened on 1 September 1888 as Goyu Station, when the Japanese Government Railways completed its line connecting Hamamatsu with Ōbu in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture. From 1 April 1895 the section became the Tōkaidō Main Line. The station building was destroyed in the Toyokawa Air Raid of 7 August 1945 and rebuilt in April 1948. On 1 August 1948 it was renamed Aichi-Mito to avoid confusion with Mito Station in Ibaraki Prefecture. Regularly scheduled freight services ended in 1971, and parcel services in 1984. With the dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. TOICA service began on 25 November 2006, and station numbering as CA44 followed in March 2018.
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
The 1948 renaming reportedly considered simply "Mito" or "Mikawa-Mito," but both were rejected — "Mito" alone risked confusion with Mito Station in Ibaraki, while "Mikawa-Mito" was uncomfortably close to Mikawa-Mitani Station (with which it differs by a single character in Japanese).