History
Morishita Station opened on 16 June 1915 at what was then Rokugō village in Nishi-Kasugai District (later absorbed into Nagoya), as a station on the Seto Electric Railway. The station building was rebuilt on 12 October 1956. It was de-staffed on 1 October 1971. The up tracks were elevated on 10 December 1989, the down tracks on 30 September 1990, making the entire station an elevated structure. The unified station-management system was introduced on 19 September 2006, the Tranpass magnetic card came into service on 16 December 2006, the Manaca IC card on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass operation ended on 29 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's name comes from the old place-name Morishita-chō just south of the station, which corresponded to today's Tokugawa 2-chōme, blocks 19 to 22 — the area at the bottom of the slope leading from Katayama Hachiman-jinja down toward the station. When it opened, Morishita sat in the middle of Ōzone, a busy commercial crossing of the Zenkōji-dō, Seto-kaidō, and Kiso-kaidō (Inuyama-kaidō) routes, with cinemas, banks, and a thriving entertainment district on the north-west side, and the station was a busy Junkyū stop; the centre of Ōzone shifted eastward only after the new subway Ōzone Station opened nearby in 1971 and the old streetcars were withdrawn, slowly drawing trade away.