History
Shibata Station opened on 18 February 1912 as Hoshizaki Station, an intermediate stop on the Aichi Electric Railway running south from Jingū-mae toward Tokoname. It was renamed Shibata Station on 7 March 1917 after a separate Hoshizaki Station opened nearby on the Arimatsu Line. The Aichi Electric Railway merged into Meitetsu on 1 August 1935, bringing the station into the Tokoname Line. Tracks were elevated for the down line on 18 December 2004 and for the up line on 1 July 2006, when the station was destaffed under Meitetsu's centralised station-management system; manaca contactless fares began on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shibata is Nagoya's southernmost Meitetsu Tokoname Line station — the next stop, Nawa, lies across the Tenpaku River in the city of Tōkai.