History
Toyohashi Station opened on 1 September 1888 as a stop on the government railway that became the Tōkaidō Main Line. The privately built Toyokawa Railroad (now the JR Iida Line) reached it in 1897 and was renamed Yoshida Station in 1899. Aichi Electric Railway, predecessor of Meitetsu, extended its Nagoya line to Yoshida in June 1927. After the Toyokawa Railroad was nationalised in 1943, Yoshida was merged into Toyohashi, making it a joint station shared with Meitetsu. The station was destroyed in the 20 June 1945 firebombing of Toyohashi. A new building reopened in 1950 as the first "community station" combining public and private investment. Tōkaidō Shinkansen platforms opened on 1 October 1964, and a comprehensive 1996-1997 rebuild added a bridge concourse and the "Carmia" station mall.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Unlike most Shinkansen stations, the high-speed platforms at Toyohashi are at ground level, because Aichi Prefecture and the city refused to remove the Shirokaizu overpass just north of the station, forcing the tracks to dip beneath it.