History
Shinkawabashi Station opened on 23 January 1914 as a station on the privately held Nagoya Electric Railway, now the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line. Staff were placed at the station in 1935, and the building was enlarged with longer platforms in August 1951. After Typhoon Kanogawa damaged the station in October 1955 it was rebuilt. From May 2002 to April 2004, while the adjacent Shinkawa river bridge was being replaced, the platforms were temporarily relocated onto the river itself to spare additional land acquisition. Tranpass entered service on 15 September 2004, the station becoming unattended at the same time, and Manaca IC ticketing began on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Around 1921, when nearby Nishi-Bisaijima factories boomed, Shinkawabashi's annual ridership briefly exceeded that of present-day junction Sukaguchi — but the 1928 timetable changes downgraded the station and its rank never recovered.