History
Kurumamichi Station is an underground station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakura-dōri Line in Aoi 3-chōme, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, with station number S07. It opened on 10 September 1989 with the inaugural Nakamura-Kuyakusho (now Taikōdōri) – Imaike segment of the line, and is named for Kurumamichi-dōri, a north-south street whose roots trace to an Edo-period stone-paved road for horse- and ox-drawn carts. Higashi-ku, the district hosting the station, is the smallest by area of Nagoya's 16 wards and has the highest population density; its core was laid out in 1610 when the Kiyosu-goshi relocation moved the Owari Tokugawa castle town from Kiyosu to Nagoya Castle, with the modern Higashi-ku built on what was then the eastern flank of that castle town.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Higashi-ku article notes that the white-walled Shirakabe / Chikara / Shumoku quarter — within walking range of the station — preserves the look of former samurai residences and is registered by Nagoya as a townscape-preservation district.