History
Hibino Station opened on 29 March 1971 in Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, as a station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway Line 2 (then known as the Meijō Line). It was fully refurbished for the 1989 World Design Exposition held in Nagoya. On 6 October 2004, when the Line 4 extension between Nagoya University and Aratamabashi opened, the network was renumbered: the section through Hibino became the Meikō Line while the existing route was reorganised. A fifth entrance and an elevator were brought into use on 1 April 2007, and movable platform-edge doors entered service on 29 June 2020. Day-to-day station business has been contracted out to Nippon Express since 27 March 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the station sits where two single-track shield tunnels from Kanayama merge, the island platform widens markedly toward the Kanayama end as the still-converging tracks draw closer together.