History
Hinomiko Station opened on 5 September 1925 on the Kanazawa Electric Tramway's Ishikawa Line, between Oyanagi and Tsurugi in what is today Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. The line passed to Hokuriku Railroad (the present operator) on 13 October 1943, when the new corporation absorbed the route as the Hokuriku Railroad Ishikawa Line. The station has a single side platform and is unstaffed; its station number is I16, and the Hokutetsu Hinomiko substation stands beside the platform. A small stop named Tsukihashi once existed about 0.6 km toward the Tsurugi end of the line but has long since closed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A local legend holds that the priest Taichō, who first opened Mount Haku in the 8th century, struck the ground near here to make hot spring water flow — the "Hand-Clap Spring" still bubbles in the vicinity.