Toyohashi Station

Toyohashi 豊橋
The east entrance of the station (September 2005)
Location	Hanada-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi （愛知県豊橋市花田町西宿） Japan
Operated by	JR Central, Meitetsu
Line(s)	Tokaido Shinkansen Tokaido Main Line Iida Line Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1888
Traffic
Passengers (FY2008)	54,109 (JR) 34,179 (Meitetsu) daily

Toyohashi Station (豊橋駅 Toyohashi-eki) is an interchange railway station in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu).

Lines

Toyohashi Station on is served by the high-speed Tokaido Shinkansen, and the conventional Tokaido Main Line and Iida Line operated by JR Central. It is also a terminus of the private Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line.

Toyohashi Railroad has two small stations close to Toyohashi Station: Shin-Toyohashi Station for the Atsumi Line railway and Ekimae Station for the Azumada Main Line tramway.

Layout

Toyohashi Station track diagram

Tokaido Main Line platforms

Meitetsu platform with Tokaido Line station sign

Local train services at Toyohashi Station are handled by five platforms serving eight tracks. The Iida Line and Meitetsu lines use three tracks terminating in a bay platform. The Tokaido Main Line uses a side platform and two island platforms. The elevated shinkansen portion of Toyohashi Station has a side platform and an island platform.

Platforms

1-2	■ Iida Line	for Toyokawa, Iida, and Tatsuno
3	■ Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	for Jingū-mae, Meitetsu-Nagoya, Meitetsu Gifu, and Shin Unuma
4	■ Tokaido Main Line	for Nagoya, Gifu, Ōgaki, and Maibara
	■ Iida Line	for Toyokawa, Iida, and Tatsuno
5-8	■ Tokaido Main Line	for Nagoya, Gifu, Ōgaki, Maibara, Hamamatsu and Shizuoka
11-12	■ Tokaido Shinkansen	for Shizuoka and Tokyo
13	■ Tokaido Shinkansen	for Nagoya and Shin-Osaka

Adjacent stations

←		Service		→
Tokaido Shinkansen
Nozomi: Does not stop at this station
Shin-Yokohama, Odawara, Shizuoka or Hamamatsu		Hikari[Note 1]		Nagoya
Hamamatsu		Kodama		Mikawa-Anjō
Tokaido Main Line
Terminus		Home Liner		Gamagōri
Futagawa		Special Rapid		Gamagōri
Futagawa		New Rapid		Gamagōri
Terminus		Rapid		Gamagōri
Futagawa		Semi Rapid		Nishi-Kozakai
Futagawa		Local		Nishi-Kozakai
Iida Line
Terminus		Limited Express Inaji		Toyokawa
Terminus		Rapid		Kozakai
Terminus		Local		Funamachi
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Terminus		Rapid Limited Express		Higashi-Okazaki
Terminus		Limited Express		Kō
Terminus		Express		Ina

1. Only a small number of Hikari services stop at Toyohashi.

History

Toyohashi Station opened September 1, 1888.^[1] The privately owned Toyokawa Railway began operations to Toyohashi on July 15, 1897, but renamed its terminus Yoshida Station (吉田駅) in 1899 to differentiate itself from the government railway system. The station building was rebuilt in 1916 and again in 1927. The Aichi Electric Railway's Toyohashi Line began operations to the Yoshida Station side of the facility on June 1, 1927. This line became part of Meitetsu on August 1, 1935, and is now the Nagoya Main Line.^[2] The Toyokawa Railway was nationalized on August 1, 1943, becoming the Iida Line, and the usage of ‘Yoshida Station’ was dropped. The station was destroyed in the Toyohashi Air Raid of June 20, 1945, during World War II.

After the war, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and a new station was completed in 1950. The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1964. A new station building was completed in 1970. With the privatization and dissolution of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central. A shopping center and a hotel were added to the station building complex in 1997.

References

• Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)

1. 中西, 隆紀 (2010). 日本の鉄道創世記 ～幕末明治の鉄道発達史～ [The history of Japanese railways] (in Japanese). Kawade Shobō Shinsha. p. 135. ISBN 978-4-309-22527-2.
2. 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), 週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (in Japanese), Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc. (8), pp. 20, 21, 22, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9 Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• JR Central station information (Japanese)

Coordinates: 34°45′46″N 137°22′54″E / 34.76278°N 137.38167°E