Higashi-Shimmachi

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Higashi-Shimmachi Station opened on 1 January 1914 as a station on the privately built Toyokawa Railway, 14 years after the Shinshiro-Ōmi section opened in 1900. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as the JGR Iida Line. Freight and parcels handling ended on 1 December 1971 and the station became a contracted operation. It passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. A new station building opened in 2008, and from 1 April 2012 the contract for window operations was transferred from Tōkai Kōtsū Jigyō to Shinshiro City, which has continued to operate the simple-contract window since. TOICA IC card service began on 15 March 2025. The station has a single side platform and the building has an output window but no automated ticket machine.

When JR Tōkai planned to end the contracted window operation in 2012, Shinshiro City stepped in and budgeted a "ticket sales project" so that the window could keep operating under a simple-contract arrangement.