History
Shin-Moriyama Station opened on 1 April 1964 as a new combined passenger and freight stop on the Chūō Main Line, inserted between Kachigawa and Ōzone after a long campaign by the former city of Moriyama (merged into Nagoya in 1963). The "Shin" prefix distinguished it from existing Moriyama stations on the Meitetsu Seto Line and the Tōkaidō Main Line in Shiga. Container freight ended in 1984, briefly resumed in 1989, and finally ceased in 2005; the JR Freight depot was wound down to a road-haul interchange. JR Central took over passenger services at the 1987 privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.