Owari-Ichinomiya

History

The station opened on 1 May 1886 as Ichinomiya Station, an early stop on the Tōkaidō Main Line of the government railways. It was destroyed by the 1891 Nōbi earthquake and rebuilt, then renamed Owari-Ichinomiya in 1916 to disambiguate it from three other Ichinomiya stations across Japan; the spelling was tidied to its present form in 1952. A concrete people's station opened in 1951, replaced by phased elevation between 1988 and 1990 that raised the tracks above the city. Operation passed to JR Central at the 1987 privatisation. The current i-Building station complex, including a city library and concourse, was completed on 1 November 2012.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.

Notes

JR Central's first female stationmaster took up her post here on 1 July 2009.