History
Ōtoba Station opened on 1 June 1974 as a new stop between Karasue and Tomoe on the Kintetsu Yōrō Line, built to serve the nearby Gifu Prefectural Ōgaki Minami High School. Initially only commuter-hour services stopped here; on 27 March 1986 all local trains began stopping. On 1 October 2007 the Yōrō Line was split off from Kintetsu and the station passed to the third-sector Yōrō Railway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Ōtoba is primarily a commuter and school-traffic stop: in 2015 some 300 of Ōgaki Minami High School's roughly 750 students used the station daily for their commute. The station has a single side platform on the right when looking toward Ōgaki, served by both directions of travel; the small station building near the Ōgaki end of the platform is the only entrance. The Meishin Expressway flies overhead north of the station, with Ōgaki IC only about 2 km away.