History
Ashihara Station opened on 22 January 1924 as a station on the Atsumi Electric Railway (the present-day Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line). After Nagoya Railroad's takeover on 1 September 1940 the station was suspended on 5 June 1944 and remained closed for nearly two decades. It reopened on 15 March 1962 as a Toyohashi Railroad station to serve a new residential development built by the railway. Passing-loop facilities were added on 1 September 1985 when the Shin-Toyohashi – Ōshimizu section began operating on a 15-minute headway, a frequency that is now extended to Mikawa-Tahara.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Ashihara is an unstaffed station with relative-form (two side) platforms and a passing loop. The station sits between rural rice paddies on the south side and a dense residential area to the north — the residential block being the same development that Toyohashi Railroad built to justify reopening the long-suspended station in 1962. West of the station, between Ueta and the Umeda-gawa bridge, the line crosses the Toyohashi outer-ring road (愛知県道31号) on an elevated viaduct.