Higashi-Toyama

Weekday departures: 68/day · Sat & holiday departures: 68/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:22 / 23:45

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line: Mizuhashi ⇄ Shin-Toyamaguchi

Higashi-Toyama Station opened on 1908-11-16 as Higashi-Iwase Station, when the government-built Hokuriku Line was extended from Toyama to Uozu through what was then Toyota Village in Kamiikawa District. On 1913-10-17 a downbound freight and an upbound special collided in the station throat (the "Higashi-Iwase accident"), an event that helped drive the nationwide adoption of catch-points and safety sidings. The station took its present name on 1950-05-20, after a station on the Toyama Port Line had been renamed Higashi-Iwase. It passed to JR West and JR Freight at privatisation on 1987-04-01. With the Hokuriku Shinkansen reaching Kanazawa on 2015-03-14, operation was transferred to Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and a new east entrance opened on 2021-03-28.

A memorial stone for the victims of the 1913 Higashi-Iwase accident -- known as the "Imajo Group Disaster Memorial" -- stands at Hoshu-ji temple in the Tabata district of Toyama City.