Kintetsu Tomida

Weekday departures: 120/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 114/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:58 / 24:25

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (9)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Kintetsu Nagoya Line: Kawagoe Tomisuhara ⇄ Kasumigaura

Kintetsu Tomida Station opened on 30 January 1929 as Nishi-Tomida (西富田) Station on the Ise Electric Railway's Yokkaichi – Kuwana section. The Ise Electric Railway was absorbed into Sangū Express Electric Railway on 15 September 1936, becoming its Nagoya-Ise Main Line. On 15 March 1941 Ōsaka Electric Tram absorbed Sangū Express, creating Kansai Express Railway; the station was renamed Kankyu-Tomida (関急富田) and the line was redefined as the Nagoya Line. On 1 June 1944 Kansai Express Railway merged with Nankai Railway to form Kintetsu and the station became Kinki-Nippon-Tomida (近畿日本富田) Station. On 1 July 1965 Sangi Railway opened Tomida-Nishiguchi Station treated as one-and-the-same with Kinki-Nippon-Tomida, and on 1 March 1970 the station was renamed Kintetsu Tomida. On 25 June 1970 Sangi Railway opened its 'Kintetsu connecting line' branching off the Sangi Line at Sangi Asahi (now Sangi-Asake) signal box to physically enter Kintetsu Tomida; from 14 March 1985 all passenger trains on the Sangi Line have used Kintetsu Tomida (the old Tomida station, on JR Central's Kansai Main Line east of here, retains only freight service). PiTaPa IC service began on 1 April 2007, the west-side station building entered service on 29 November 2008, and the west plaza was completed on 6 April 2009. Station numbers are E17 (Kintetsu) and S01 (Sangi Line).

The Sangi Railway-managed west station building, opened November 2008, is shaped like a whale in commemoration of the local Tomida-no-Kujirabune (whaling-boat) festival listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage element; passengers enter through what is treated as the whale's mouth, and the roof carries a solar-power system.