diff --git a/python/CMakeLists.txt b/python/CMakeLists.txt
index 3058431f0f38b..3ed518d010985 100644
--- a/python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -387,10 +387,11 @@ endif()
 
 set(CYTHON_EXTENSIONS
     lib
-    _fs
     _compute
     _csv
     _feather
+    _fs
+    _hdfsio
     _json)
 
 set(LINK_LIBS arrow_shared arrow_python_shared)
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
index adfd69c18b323..1488f5c42e852 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
@@ -164,15 +164,17 @@ def show_versions():
                          log_memory_allocations, jemalloc_set_decay_ms)
 
 # I/O
-from pyarrow.lib import (HdfsFile, NativeFile, PythonFile,
+from pyarrow.lib import (NativeFile, PythonFile,
                          BufferedInputStream, BufferedOutputStream,
                          CompressedInputStream, CompressedOutputStream,
                          TransformInputStream, transcoding_input_stream,
                          FixedSizeBufferWriter,
                          BufferReader, BufferOutputStream,
                          OSFile, MemoryMappedFile, memory_map,
-                         create_memory_map, have_libhdfs,
-                         MockOutputStream, input_stream, output_stream)
+                         create_memory_map, MockOutputStream,
+                         input_stream, output_stream)
+
+from pyarrow._hdfsio import HdfsFile, have_libhdfs
 
 from pyarrow.lib import (ChunkedArray, RecordBatch, Table, table,
                          concat_arrays, concat_tables)
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/io-hdfs.pxi b/python/pyarrow/_hdfsio.pyx
similarity index 97%
rename from python/pyarrow/io-hdfs.pxi
rename to python/pyarrow/_hdfsio.pyx
index 2cdb1b7bfda82..b864f8a686a99 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/io-hdfs.pxi
+++ b/python/pyarrow/_hdfsio.pyx
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # HDFS IO implementation
 
+# cython: language_level = 3
+
+import re
+
+from pyarrow.lib cimport check_status, _Weakrefable, NativeFile
+from pyarrow.includes.common cimport *
+from pyarrow.includes.libarrow cimport *
+from pyarrow.includes.libarrow_fs cimport *
+from pyarrow.lib import frombytes, tobytes, ArrowIOError
+
 from queue import Queue, Empty as QueueEmpty, Full as QueueFull
 
 
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/hdfs.py b/python/pyarrow/hdfs.py
index c4daac9fd1a53..56667bd5df57d 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/hdfs.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/hdfs.py
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 
 from pyarrow.util import implements, _DEPR_MSG
 from pyarrow.filesystem import FileSystem
-import pyarrow.lib as lib
+import pyarrow._hdfsio as _hdfsio
 
 
-class HadoopFileSystem(lib.HadoopFileSystem, FileSystem):
+class HadoopFileSystem(_hdfsio.HadoopFileSystem, FileSystem):
     """
     DEPRECATED: FileSystem interface for HDFS cluster.
 
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/io.pxi b/python/pyarrow/io.pxi
index 3fc098478d61a..9c501adcc2bbe 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/io.pxi
+++ b/python/pyarrow/io.pxi
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import threading
 import time
 import warnings
 from io import BufferedIOBase, IOBase, TextIOBase, UnsupportedOperation
+from queue import Queue, Empty as QueueEmpty
 
 from pyarrow.util import _is_path_like, _stringify_path
 
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/lib.pyx b/python/pyarrow/lib.pyx
index 1866d07112166..191250b3d5bc4 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/lib.pyx
+++ b/python/pyarrow/lib.pyx
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ include "tensor.pxi"
 
 # File IO
 include "io.pxi"
-include "io-hdfs.pxi"
 
 # IPC / Messaging
 include "ipc.pxi"
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index b4de5799d66db..24d54809a4212 100755
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ def initialize_options(self):
         '_plasma',
         '_s3fs',
         '_hdfs',
+        '_hdfsio',
         'gandiva']
 
     def _run_cmake(self):