Tokai

Weekday departures: 84/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 81/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:24 / 23:52

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Omika ⇄ Sawa (Ibaraki)

Tōkai Station is an East Japan Railway (JR East) Jōban Line station in Funaishikawa-Ekinishi 1-chōme, Tōkai-mura, Naka District, Ibaraki Prefecture. It opened on 1 April 1898 as Ishigami Station on Nippon Railway, was nationalised in 1906, was renamed Tōkai on 1 April 1957, and was transferred to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. An elevated station building entered service on 20 January 1994, Suica was enabled on 16 October 2004, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 17 March 2023.

On 29 December 1961 the up express Iwate exceeded the permitted speed over a switch while passing through Tōkai Station; locomotive C62 21 and two coaches derailed and overturned, and further coaches came off the rails. The fireman was killed and five people were injured.