History
Funamachi Station opened on 1 June 1927 as Shin-Funamachi Temporary Stop (新船町停留場) on the Toyokawa Railway, alongside the Aichi Electric Railway Toyohashi Line which shared the tracks into Toyohashi. On 1 August 1943 the Toyokawa Railway was nationalized; the stop became a full station on JNR's Iida Line and took the name Funamachi from a nearby freight station that was simultaneously merged into Toyohashi. The station has never handled freight or parcels. It became a delegated-management station in 1969 and unstaffed in February 1984; on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central. TOICA service began in 2010 and station number CD01 was assigned in 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the Iida Line shares tracks with the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line between Toyohashi and Hirai Junction, every Meitetsu service runs through Funamachi without stopping.