History
Hitotsugi Station opened on 1 April 1923 as an Aichi Electric Railway station serving Saifukuji, the second-of-three Mikawa-Sanbōji pilgrimage temple. A wooden waiting room called the Gochido was erected on the Chiryū-bound platform on 15 February 1924; it was demolished after the war and replaced with another temple-style station building, itself in turn replaced when the present building was constructed. On 1 August 1935 the station passed to Nagoya Railroad with its formation through merger with Meiqi Railroad. On 24 November 1958 a three-wheeled truck collided with a limited-express train at a level crossing in the station yard, completely destroying the train — the 'Hitotsugi Station collision fire'. The station was de-staffed on 16 March 1970. From the 27 March 2003 timetable revision the number of trains stopping at the station roughly doubled. The current station building dates from 15 September 2004, when the Transpass IC system also began. Manaca IC cards began service on 11 February 2011 and replaced Transpass on 29 February 2012. The station code is NH20.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Per the Japanese Wikipedia article, the daily boarding-plus-alighting figure at Hitotsugi rose from 1,110 in fiscal 1992 to 2,965 in fiscal 2013 (Nagoya Railroad's 100-Year history), and per JR West's accessibility report stood at 3,661 in fiscal 2024.