Hiro-Godo

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Hiro-Gōdo Station opened on 31 July 1913 with the inauguration of the (old) Yōrō Railway between Yōrō and Ikeno. Through a series of corporate consolidations it passed in turn to Ibigawa Electric (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric Railway (1929), Yōrō Dentetsu (1936), Sangū Kyūkō Electric Railway (1940), Kansai Kyūkō Railway (1941), and finally Kintetsu (Kinki Nippon Railway) on 1 June 1944. The station was rebuilt in 1992 and destaffed in February 2002. On 1 October 2007 it was separated from Kintetsu and transferred to the present-day Yōrō Railway.

Hiro-Gōdo serves as the central station for the town of Gōdo. From the 1930s through the mid-1970s a freight spur ran north from the station, originally connecting to a Toyoshima Spinning mill and later to Tōhō Rayon (now Teijin), and traces of the abandoned freight line are still visible. The southern part of the station-front plaza, once occupied by the freight yard, is now a small park whose centrepiece is an ornament with a motif of the seven mikoshi of the local Hiyoshi-jinja shrine, visible from passing trains.