History
Hinode Station opened on 1 November 1995 with the Yurikamome line, the Tōkyō Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line. It is operated by Yurikamome Inc. and lies on a reclaimed island within Tōkyō Port, on the seaward side of the storm-surge barrier so that the station is cut off when the floodgates close during a typhoon warning. The station is named for the nearby Hinode Pier on the Tōkyō Port waterfront; despite the shared characters the name is unrelated to the inland town of Hinode in western Tōkyō, which has no railway station of its own.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite sharing a name with the town of Hinode in western Tokyo, the station is named for Hinode Pier on the Tokyo Bay waterfront; the inland Hinode municipality has no railway station of its own.