History
Kotsuyōsui Station opened on 6 August 1912 as a station on what is now Meitetsu's Inuyama Line. It was closed in 1944 and reopened on 18 November 1952. The Toyobo Inuyama factory siding (4.0 km) was abandoned on 1 December 1968 and the station has been unattended since 1 June 1974. The Nagoya-bound platform was extended to eight cars in 1979, the platform canopy was extended in 2003, and a new station building with automated faregates and ticket machines was completed in January 2004. SF Panorama Card/Yurica use began on 15 February 2004, the station was upgraded to a sub-express (junkyū) stop with the timetable revision of 27 December 2008, and the manaca IC card was introduced on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kotsuyōsui sits in Fusō, Aichi, very close to the Inuyama city border, and is sometimes mistaken for an Inuyama-city station because the neighbouring Inuyama district itself is named Kottsu. The station's name comes from another name for the Aishō River that flows past — Kotsu Yōsui — though the river-name reading 'kottsu-yōsui' differs from the station-name reading 'kotsu-yōsui'. The two opposed side platforms are deliberately unequal: the Nagoya-bound platform accommodates eight cars, while the Inuyama-bound platform takes only six.