History
Shimizu Station opened on 23 May 1911 at what was then Shimizu-chō in Nishi-Kasugai District (later absorbed into Nagoya), as a station on the Seto Electric Railway. From 15 February 1976 to 20 August 1978, while the new line to Sakaemachi was being built, a temporary station called Doi-shita stood 200 metres west; the underground extension into Sakaemachi opened in 1978. The up tracks were elevated on 10 December 1989, the down tracks on 30 September 1990. The unified station-management system was introduced on 8 August 2006 (de-staffing the station, which had earlier had partial staffing from around 1993), 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. The SAKUMACHI Shopping Street under the elevated tracks toward Amagasaka opened on 27 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Shimizu shares its kanji with the major Shimizu Station of Shizuoka, the in-train automatic announcements at the Nagoya station use a flat (low-high-high) accent — not the high-low-low accent used for the Shizuoka one. The station name itself comes from the "Kameo no shimizu," once one of Nagoya's three famous springs that emerged below the cliff of Nanao Shrine (Kameo Tenmangū) adjacent to the station, and Manaca and TOICA log entries display "Meitetsu Shimizu" to distinguish this station from the Shizuoka one.