History
Hiratobashi Station opened on 31 October 1924 as a stop on the privately built Mikawa Railway, which was absorbed by Meitetsu on 1 June 1941. The station was de-staffed on 1 April 1967 and has been unmanned ever since. A centralised station management system and Tranpass fare-card equipment were installed in October 2003, replaced by the manaca smart-card system in February 2011. The single side platform sits on a sharp curve and is the only stop on the Mikawa Line's Sanage branch where trains cannot pass each other.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name comes from the Hirato Bridge on the Yahagi River, the old Route 153 crossing about ten minutes' walk east — a span the line itself does not cross.