History
Hotei Station opened with the Meitetsu Inuyama Line on 6 August 1912 in what was then the town of Hotei, Niwa District, absorbed into the new city of Kōnan in 1954. Work to elevate the station — to abolish five level crossings and remove an 85 km/h speed restriction north of the station — began in October 2009. A temporary station building featuring Meitetsu's first full-color LED departure board opened on 6 February 2010, with tracks moving to temporary platforms in October 2012 and October 2013. Tracks 3 and 4 were elevated on 10 June 2017, and tracks 1 and 2 followed during fiscal 2019. The station was used by an average of 8,911 passengers daily in fiscal 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The pre-2010 Hotei station building was the last surviving giyōfū-style structure on the Inuyama Line, dating from the line's opening at the start of the Taishō period; when it faced demolition, Meitetsu and the City of Kōnan agreed in May 2010 to transfer significant fittings including the western-style porte-cochère, embossed with the Nagoya Electric Railway emblem, to the city for preservation.