History
Masugata Station opened on 9 October 1906 when Tosa Electric Railway extended the Honmachi Line (now Ino Line) west from Noridashi (today's Grand-dōri) to Kagamigawabashi. Unusually for the line, the stop name has never been changed — though the kanji has wandered between 升形, 枡形 and 桝形 in different documents, and even appeared incorrectly on station-name signboards as 升形 at one point. Conductors of old also announced the stop as "Masugata-hirokōji." The stop passed to Tosaden Kōtsū on 1 October 2014 with the operator merger. A turnout west of the stop allows some Harimaya-bashi-bound short workings to terminate here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Masugata means "square box" — the stop is named for a former rectangular plaza here where Tosa-domain samurai mustered in emergencies. The original 1904 licence for the line described it as running "from Honmachi-aza-Masugata to Honmachi-aza-Horizume," though the stop itself opened only on the 1906 extension.