Ōzone

History

Ōzone Station serves the northeastern part of Nagoya as the city's largest transport interchange outside of Nagoya and Kanayama stations. After the Tajimi–Nagoya section of the Chūō Line opened in 1900 without stopping locally, residents campaigned to fund land and embankment work for a station; the JR predecessor demanded a private feeder line to Seto in return, and the Seto Electric Railway predecessor arrived at Ōzone in 1906 before the JNR station finally opened in 1911. A 7 April 1945 American bombing raid aimed at the adjacent Mitsubishi factory destroyed the station; thirty of the thirty-seven staff sheltering in an air-raid shelter were killed, but a hundred waiting passengers had been evacuated minutes earlier on an unscheduled train.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

During the 7 April 1945 bombing raid, station staff loaded roughly 100 waiting passengers onto an unscheduled train to Katsukawa moments before the platforms were destroyed; all reached the next stop unharmed.