History
Shin-Hashima Station opened on 11 December 1982 as the terminus of the Meitetsu Hashima Line, in the city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, directly adjacent to Gifu-Hashima Station on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. It is the westernmost station of the Meitetsu network. On 3 January 2002 a local train slipped on snow and struck the buffer stop; platforms were temporarily shortened with door-cuts before the stop position was moved 10 m back. The station was de-staffed on 20 November 2007 and Transpass arrived on 14 December 2007. The Manaca IC card became usable on 11 February 2011. On 1 April 2019 an elevator and multi-purpose toilet completed barrier-free conversion of the entire Hashima Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Although built to connect Gifu with the Shinkansen, most users from Gifu City actually access the high-speed network via Nagoya Station — leaving Shin-Hashima mainly serving local commuters and students of nearby Gifu College of Nursing.