Kitayama (Aichi)

History

Kitayama Station opened on 1 July 1927 at Kitayama 2-chōme, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, with a wooden single-storey station building, succeeding an unnamed signal point that had stood here for years; an electrical substation had been on the site even earlier. On 6 March 1964 a four-storey reinforced-concrete station complex was completed, the ground floor of which housed the station along with the line's traffic-control office, the staff room, and a Meitetsu-affiliated supermarket (Meitetsu Shopping, later Meitetsu Pare). The station was promoted to a Kyūkō stop on 20 August 1978 when the line was extended into the new Sakaemachi terminus. Automatic ticket gates were installed in March 1984. The adjacent Kitayama Inspection Yard (active since 1946, having succeeded the war-burned Daizōne Yard) was closed on 30 June 2007. The Manaca IC card came into service on 11 February 2011, Tranpass operation ended on 29 February 2012, and the eight-track elevated rebuild of the Obata–Ōmori-Kinjōgakuin-mae section gradually relocated the platforms — first the down platform on 17 September 2016, then the up platform on 17 March 2018 to a temporary location. The up tracks were transferred to the elevated alignment on 19 March 2022 and the down tracks on 26 July 2025, completing the elevation work and removing eight level crossings around the station; the station became fully unstaffed from the same date.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

From 1946 to 30 June 2007 the Kitayama Inspection Yard adjoined the station; established to replace the war-burned Daizōne Yard, it performed daily, monthly, train, and accident inspections for all Seto Line rolling stock, and even after its 2007 closure (when functions moved to the new Owari-Asahi yard) the residual presence of a former crew base at the station means crews still change here, and a number of early- and late-day trains still terminate at Kitayama.