History
Ikeshita Station opened on 15 June 1960 with the extension of the Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line from Sakaemachi (today's Sakae) to Ikeshita. It became an intermediate stop with the further extension to Higashiyama-Kōen on 1 April 1963. Until then the station had been collocated with the line's first depot, the Ikeshita Yard; this was decommissioned in April 1969 when the Fujigaoka Works took over the role. Step-free access at the east-side gate was added in October 1997 with the installation of an elevator. manaca acceptance began on 11 February 2011, and platform-edge gates entered service on 7 December 2015. The station is built integrally with the Ikeshita Bus Terminal, the Ikeshita Building (Chika-Shin Ikeshita) and the municipal Ikeshita-sō public-housing block.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Ikeshita's eastern curve, where the tunnel transitions from beneath Nishiki-dōri to Hirokōji-dōri, was constructed as the very first single-track shield tunnel on the Nagoya Municipal Subway, and remains the only such section on the Higashiyama Line.