History
Minami-Gyōtoku Station opened on 27 March 1981 as an infill stop on the Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line, retrofitted into a viaduct whose support structures and right-of-way had been preserved from the original 1969 build. The roughly twenty-minute commute to central Tokyo drove dense development on what had been farmland, and the new station relieved its neighbours and added local access. Total construction cost was about ¥1.4 billion. The Teito Rapid Transit Authority operated the station until privatisation transferred it to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004. A 2011–2012 renovation added rooftop solar generation, an LED concourse refit, and inverter lighting; departure melodies began on 11 June 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The viaduct that carries the Tōzai Line was built with hidden hooks for this station years before it opened, so the 1981 retrofit needed no realignment of the elevated track.