History
Shin Nittetsu-mae Station is a Meitetsu Tokoname Line station in Tōkai, Aichi Prefecture, 10.6 kilometres from the line's terminus at Jingū-mae. It opened on 18 February 1912 as Kake Station on the Aichi Electric Railway, becoming part of the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) group on 1 August 1935. The station was suspended in 1944 and reopened on 17 August 1964 as Tōkaiseitetsu-mae after the nearby Tōkai Steel works. It was renamed Fujiseitetsu-mae on 1 August 1967 when Tōkai merged into Fuji Steel, then took its present name on 31 March 1970 with the formation of Nippon Steel. The station has been unstaffed since March 2002, and the manaca IC card began service in 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station bears the name of the operator that succeeded Nippon Steel, no renaming has followed the subsequent mergers into Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in 2012 or back to Nippon Steel in 2019, and the new-style kanji 鉄 has been used since 1970 even though the steelmaker itself uses the traditional 鐵.