History
Hirokōji Station opened on 18 July 1922 with the Iga Railway's Uenomachi (now Ueno-shi) to Nabari extension. With successive corporate moves the line passed to Iga Electric Railway on 19 December 1926, Osaka Electric Tramway's Iga Line on 31 March 1929, Sangu Express Electric Railway on 26 September 1931, Kansai Express Railway on 15 March 1941, and Kintetsu through the 1 June 1944 wartime merger. The station closed on 1 June 1945 and reopened on 15 March 1946. It became unattended on 15 March 2000, and the original station building and toilet were demolished on 27 August 2007. Operation passed to the spun-off Iga Railway (new company) on 1 October 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Hirokōji has a single side platform with no through-track switch, so trains in both directions — towards Iga-Kanbe and towards Ueno-shi — share the same platform. The line was once part of a planned Ōmi Railway extension from Kibukawa Station as part of the Ōmi Railway Ujiyamada Extension Concept, which never materialised.