History
Komoto Station opened on 6 October 2004 with the conversion of the former Japanese National Railways Nishi-Nagoyakō freight branch line into the passenger Aonami Line, operated by the third-sector Nagoya Rinkai Rapid Transit. The line had been a freight-only Tōkaidō Main Line branch since 1 June 1950 between Sasashima and Nishi-Nagoyakō; the present station and several others were built when Nagoya Rinkai Rapid Transit (established 1997) converted the route for passenger use. The station carries the line code AN03 and is normally unstaffed, being managed remotely from neighbouring Nakajima Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Komoto's daily boarding ridership has grown from 498 in fiscal 2004 (its opening year) to 1,391 in fiscal 2024, per Nagoya City statistics cited in the Japanese Wikipedia article.