Nishioguchi Station

History

Nishioguchi Station opened on 5 October 1928 as Hekiden Nishioguchi Station on the privately owned Hekikai Electric Railway, in what is now Nishio, Aichi Prefecture. Following several reorganisations of the railway, the station was renamed Nishioguchi when the Hekikai Electric Railway was absorbed into Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on 1 March 1944. Track elevation works were completed on 2 July 1989, and a complementary doubling of the 600-metre section to Nishio Station finished on 14 June 2008. The Tranpass system was deployed on 14 November 2007 and replaced by Manaca on 11 February 2011, with Tranpass withdrawn on 29 February 2012. Only about 800 metres separate this station from Nishio.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.

Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.

Notes

In 2006 Meitetsu told local authorities it would close stations averaging fewer than 300 boardings per day; Nishioguchi was spared because of its city-centre location.