History
Toba Station opened on 21 July 1911 as the terminus of the Sangū Line's extension from Yamada (now Iseshi), reached only after roughly five hectares of waters up to 1.8 meters deep were reclaimed. The station building was rebuilt in April 1926, and through service to and from Tokyo began the following August. The Shima Electric Railway, ancestor of today's Kintetsu Shima Line, opened its Toba-Shinjukō section on 23 July 1929. After post-war mergers into Mie Kōtsū in 1944, the railway business spun off into Mie Denki Tetsudō on 1 February 1964 and was finally absorbed by Kintetsu on 1 April 1965. The Kintetsu Toba Line opened its direct connection to Ujiyamada on 1 March 1970. The station is the joint terminus of the JR Sangū Line and the Kintetsu Toba and Shima Lines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.