History
Makinokō Station opened on 1 August 1924 as part of the final extension of the Sunzu Line from Ōhito to its present terminus at Shuzenji, and it has remained the penultimate stop on the line. The station was destaffed on 1 May 1971. Today it carries station number IS12 on the Izuhakone Railway-operated Sunzu Line, retaining its two opposed side platforms and a small ground-level station building accessed by a level crossing. In March 2015 the Izuhakone Sunzu Line section between Takyō and Shuzenji hosted what the Railway Technical Research Institute described as the world's first revenue-route trial of superconducting feeder cables, with the test equipment installed at Ōhito immediately north of Makinokō.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Makinokō is an unstaffed local stop, two limited-express Odoriko services occasionally cross each other here.