History
The Nagoya Municipal Subway Meijō Line section eastwards from Ōzone was originally planned to open all the way to Nagoya University as part of a single Ōzone - Aratamabashi extension. After Nagoya Dome was decided to open in 1997, however, the Ōzone - Sunadabashi section was brought forward, and Sunadabashi Station opened on 19 January 2000 as a temporary terminus. The Meijō Line was extended to Nagoya University Station on 13 December 2003. Platform screen doors entered service on 2 November 2020. On the Nagoya Guideway Bus Shidami Line (Yutorito Line), the station opened on 23 March 2001. At the subway opening, only platform 1 was used for turnback service and platform 2 was used solely as an alighting platform for terminating trains that would then deadhead onward.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name comes from a former bridge near the present Sunadabashi intersection. The Daikō River that once flowed beneath that bridge was put underground when Nagoya Municipal Road Daikō Line was widened (today the river is a culvert beneath the south sidewalk of the line), so the bridge no longer exists. A municipal address-reorganisation in the late Showa era created a new district called Sunadabashi in the eastern half of the former Higashi-ku Daikō-chō, and the place-name survives there today. The subway station is on the basement level (Meijō Line station number M14, accent colour lime green) with two opposed side platforms; both pocket-track crossovers towards Nagoya Dome-mae Yada remain in place after the 2003 extension and the 2004 ring-line conversion. The Yutorito Line uses two opposed side platforms above ground (Y03) with elevators at both north and south exits; the up-direction escalator on platform 2 is — uniquely among intermediate Yutorito Line stations excluding Ōzone — a descending-only escalator. The 1st and 3rd exits cut into the grounds of the Aichi University of Education Affiliated Nagoya Junior High School and Meijō Junior-Senior High School respectively.