History
Sakō Station, on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line in Nishi-ku, Nagoya, opened on 12 August 1941. The station building has been rebuilt twice — first on 25 August 1957, and again on 17 December 1996 when the platforms were lengthened from six-car to eight-car capacity and the first elevators were installed. Express trains began stopping from the timetable revision of 29 January 2005, and stopping frequencies rose further on 27 December 2008 when most weekday rapid-express runs were merged into the express category. On 24 September 2015 the Meitetsu Hospital gate, directly connecting the station with the hospital concourse, was reopened with new elevators. The station is directly attached to Meitetsu Hospital and the station nameplate carries the supplementary name "Meitetsu Byōin-mae."
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Around twenty of the columns supporting the platform canopy were re-used from old rail, and the majority are 1897 Carnegie-mark steel — relics of the original ironworks-era construction of Japan's railway network.