History
Kōfūdai Station opened on 16 October 1978 on the Nose Electric Railway's Myōken Line, in the town of Toyono, Osaka Prefecture. The station was constructed at the request of the developer behind the Kōfūdai and Shin-Kōfūdai newtowns, who partly funded a new alignment that replaced sharp curves at the site. The station sits in a steep valley, with platforms sandwiched between two tunnels - the Sasabe No. 2 tunnel to the Yamashita end, and the Kōfūdai No. 1 tunnel to the Myōken-guchi end - and is the only crossing point on the Myōken Line's single-track section. The earlier "Tunnel-east entrance signal box" between Sasabe and Myōken-guchi was abolished in 1977 ahead of the new station's opening. Access between the elevated station and the surrounding districts is via stairs and an upward-only escalator.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits in such a steep valley that its platforms are bracketed by tunnels at both ends, and access between the elevated concourse and the surrounding districts is by long stairs and an upward-only escalator.