History
Originally opened on 24 January 1900 as Ichinomiya Station of the Bisai Railway — the predecessor of today's Bisai Line — and renamed Shin-Ichinomiya within fiscal 1900. The Bisai Railway opened the Shin-Ichinomiya - Kokufunomiya section on 15 February 1924, and on 3 February 1928 the Nagoya-direction main line was through-connected from Kokufunomiya, joining Ichinomiya to Nagoya. The April 1935 opening of the Nagoya - Gifu line (today's Meitetsu Main Line) completed the Meigi link. The Soto Line (later the Okoshi Line) reached the station in December 1930, then was withdrawn in December 1952 when the Bisai Line voltage was raised to 1500 V. Freight handling and JNR interchange ceased on 10 February 1966, automated faregates were installed in May 1987, and a temporary station building was used from 26 March 1989 during elevation works. Main-line elevation was completed on 21 February 1993, separating the gates from JR's Owari-Ichinomiya Station; full elevation of both lines was achieved by July 1995 and the whole continuous-grade-separation project was finished in March 1996. The station was renamed Meitetsu-Ichinomiya on 29 January 2005. The manaca IC card was introduced on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Meitetsu-Ichinomiya is an elevated station with two ten-car island platforms serving four tracks; the parking lot directly above is integrated with the station. Three faregates are provided — the main central gate on the first floor with staffed window, an unattended south gate on the mezzanine, and an unattended parking-lot gate on the fourth floor — linked by three elevators, seven escalators and a stairway. The adjacent JR Owari-Ichinomiya Station shares the same elevated structure and is connected by an east-west passage through the underdeck. Track 1 serves the Bisai Line, with Morikami/Tsushima trains using the Nagoya end and Okumachi/Tamanoi trains using the Gifu end; both directions can depart simultaneously thanks to platform-mid home and shunt signals, and they do so twice an hour. Tracks 2 and 4 are the up and down main-line platforms, while track 3 is used for terminating trains or for up-direction express-local connections. A short pocket track at the Gifu end is used for car storage.