They then announced these stations were selected based on the criteria that they received fewer than 300 riders per day and were located outside urban areas.

Meitetsu then applied this method of evaluating concrete ridership numbers to the Gamagōri Line with the criteria that the benchmark for considering changing to buses would be less than 4,000 riders per day, meaning the Gamagōri Line at 2,857 riders per day in fiscal 2005 was a strong candidate for cancellation.

During this same period, Meitetsu was considering implementing a flat fare for the Nishio Line as well as permitting non-disassembled bicycles on board.

[3] Meitetsu expressed how the lines were unable to display rail's features as a mass transit system due to the extremely low ridership and that they had already exhausted what the company could do alone.

[4] They also announced in their 2008 Equipment and Investment Plan that they would not be introducing Tranpass, a magnetic fare card system, between Mikawa Toba Station and Gamagōri Station on the Gamagōri Line despite its rollout on the rest of the company's lines.

Further meetings agreed that the line's continued existence would be maintained by government support up to the 2025 fiscal year.