History
Hiro-Gōdo Station opened on 31 July 1913 with the inauguration of the (old) Yōrō Railway between Yōrō and Ikeno. Through a series of corporate consolidations it passed in turn to Ibigawa Electric (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric Railway (1929), Yōrō Denetsu (1936), Sangū Kyūkō Electric Railway (1940), Kansai Kyūkō Railway (1941), and finally Kintetsu (Kinki Nippon Railway) on 1 June 1944. The station was rebuilt in 1992 and destaffed in February 2002. On 1 October 2007 it was separated from Kintetsu and transferred to the present-day Yōrō Railway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Hiro-Gōdo serves as the central station for the town of Gōdo. From the 1930s through the mid-1970s a freight spur ran north from the station, originally connecting to a Toyoshima Spinning mill and later to Tōhō Rayon (now Teijin), and traces of the abandoned freight line are still visible. The platform-side plaza now hosts a small park whose centrepiece is an ornament motif of the seven mikoshi of the local Hiyoshi-jinja shrine, visible from passing trains.