Toyokawa (Aichi)

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Toyokawa Station opened on 15 July 1897 as the terminus of the private Toyokawa Railway extension from Toyohashi; it ceased to be a terminus a week later when the line was extended to Mikawa-Ichinomiya. A three-storey reinforced-concrete station building was completed in December 1931. The Nishi-Toyokawa branch line opened on 12 May 1942 to serve the wartime Toyokawa Naval Arsenal. The Toyokawa Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and absorbed into the Iida Line. The Nishi-Toyokawa branch was abolished on 15 September 1956. Freight handling ended on 21 January 1984, and luggage handling on 14 March 1985. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, passenger services passed to JR Central while freight became JR Freight; a temporary station replaced the 1931 building on 4 June 1995, and the present third-generation overhead station with east–west free passage opened on 17 December 1996.

JR Toyokawa Station stands next door to Meitetsu's Toyokawa-inari Station, and the pair are the only point in the city of Toyokawa where passengers can change between JR and Meitetsu. A private siding also runs west from the JR station to the Nippon Sharyō Toyokawa Works, so newly built rolling stock leaves the factory on trains dispatched from Toyokawa Station. That siding is what survives of the Nishi-Toyokawa branch line, opened on 12 May 1942 to carry materials and workers to the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal: abolished as a JNR line on 15 September 1956, it was kept on as a spur to the JNR Hamamatsu Works' Toyokawa plant built on the arsenal site, and was transferred to Nippon Sharyō in July 1964 when that plant closed.