Nagoyajo

History

The station opened on 15 October 1965 as Shiyakusho (City Hall) Station when the Meijō Line was extended from Sakae, and a series of further extensions reached Ozone on 20 December 1971. A pedestrian subway linking it to the Aichi Prefectural Office opened in March 1966, and a "Prefectural Office" sub-name was added in March 1994. Platform-edge doors were brought into service on 13 September 2020. On 4 January 2023 the station was renamed Nagoyajō ("Nagoya Castle"), retaining "City Hall / Prefectural Office" as a sub-name; the change was driven by a wish to make the closest stop to Nagoya Castle obvious to visitors and to avoid confusion with the adjacent Meijō-Kōen Station.

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

Notes

On 27 October 2022 the station unveiled what it advertised as the first route map in Japan built out of LEGO bricks, displayed by the ticket machines at the north concourse.