Terada (Toyama)

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Terada Station opened on 15 August 1931 with the simultaneous opening of the Toyama Denki Tetsudō (Toyama Electric Railway) line from Toyama-Denjigata Station past Terada to Kamiichi-guchi, together with a separate branch from Terada to Gohyakkoku. On 1 January 1943 Toyama Denki Tetsudō merged Toyama Prefecture's railway companies and renamed itself Toyama Chihō Railway. The wooden station building dating from 1931 is still in use, with its sign reading 驛田寺 — using the old form 驛 and written right to left. A large-scale renovation, including IC-card-only fare gates, was completed on 23 September 2016.

Terada is the junction where the Tateyama Line branches off the Main Line, but the planned delta connection between the two lines was never completed. As a result, the Alpen limited express between Tateyama and Unazuki-Onsen must reverse direction at Terada — it discharges passengers at the up platform used by trains arriving off the Tateyama Line, changes ends on the Main Line on the Dentetsu-Toyama side, then draws into the down Main Line track to board passengers heading toward Unazuki-Onsen (and vice versa).