History
Kachigawa Station opened on 25 July 1900 as a general station when the government railway extended the Chuo line between Nagoya and Tajimi; it took its name from the Katsugawa district of what is now Kasugai, Aichi. The station was reorganised as the Chuo West Line in 1909 and the Chuo Main Line in 1911. Freight handling was transferred to Shin-Moriyama in 1964, and the station passed to JR Central with privatisation on 1 April 1987. The connecting TKJ Johoku Line opened on 1 December 1991 in a separate platform 500 metres west. Tracks were elevated in stages, with the JR side completed on 23 November 2009 and surrounding works finishing in 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The JR and TKJ Kachigawa stations sit about 500 metres apart and have never been physically connected; the JR elevated structure was built with provisional inner tracks reserved for a future TKJ through-running that has never materialised.