Hongu

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Hongū Station opened on 1 October 1937 when the Toyama Prefectural Railway extended its line from Chigaki to the former Awasuno. On 1 June 1942 the section from Chigaki to Awasuno was transferred from the prefectural railway to Nippon Hassōden (the Japan Electric Generation and Transmission Company), and on 1 January 1943 it passed again - as the prefectural railway's and Nippon Hassōden's transport operations were merged - to the newly created Toyama Chihō Railway. On 1 April 1954 the Omi (today Arimineguchi) to old Awasuno section was transferred to Tateyama Kaihatsu Railway, and on 1 April 1962 the Omi to Senjugahara (today Tateyama) section was transferred back to Toyama Chihō Railway, which has operated the station ever since.

Hongū once had two now-defunct neighbours toward the Tateyama side: Ashikuraji Station and Awasuno Station. Ashikuraji had been built on the opposite bank of the river from the Ashikuraji settlement after the line was rerouted around the Arimine Dam construction, on the condition that a bridge be added across to the village; prefectural budget problems delayed the bridge for so long that the lightly used station was closed before the bridge — eventually opened as Tateyama-Ōhashi — was finished. Awasuno was the line's terminus until Senjugahara (today Tateyama) opened on 1 July 1955, drawing climbers and skiers; afterwards it survived as a ski-area access stop but the slopes were a long, steep walk from the platform, so the station was closed on 22 May 1981.