History
Tamanoi Station opened on 4 August 1914 with the opening of the line between Shin-Ichinomiya (now Meitetsu-Ichinomiya) and Kisogawabashi. It was closed on 21 March 1944 when the Okumachi - Kisogawakō segment was suspended, and reopened on 28 December 1951 between Okumachi and Tamanoi — at which point it became the line terminus. The dormant Tamanoi - Kisogawakō segment was formally abolished on 25 November 1959, making the station the official terminus. Freight operations ended in fiscal 1962. The Transpass system was introduced on 8 August 2007 and the manaca IC card on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Tamanoi is the single-side-platform terminus of Meitetsu's Bisai Line (station number BS24) and, despite being a terminus, is unstaffed. Before the 2007 Transpass conversion, the neighbouring Yaohiro grocery store sold the hard-card tickets on commission; that arrangement ended on 25 June 2007. The current station building was built for the Transpass conversion — between the previous building's demolition and this one, the station consisted of only the platform.