History
Kachigawa Station opened on 25 July 1900 when the Nagoya-Tajimi segment of the Chuo Main Line was completed, serving the seat of the former Higashi-Kasugai District government in Kachigawa-cho. Freight handling was moved to Shin-Moriyama in April 1964 and parcel handling ended in February 1984. The station passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The JR-Central Transport Service (TKJ) Johoku Line opened a separate platform here on 1 December 1991, with its station 500 m to the west of the JR building. Elevation of the JR tracks was completed on 23 November 2009 and a new station building followed in 2010. The JR station was made unstaffed on 1 March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The elevated JR platform was over-built as a two-island, four-track design in anticipation of eventually merging with the adjacent Johoku Line station; the inner two tracks are not even laid, and a fence still walls off the unused platform face about 500 m east of the TKJ stop.