History
Kokusai Center Station opened on 10 September 1989 at Nagoya-eki 4-chōme, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, when the Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakura-dōri Line began service. During planning and construction the station was tentatively called Hijie, after the old place-name still preserved in the names of nearby tram and bus stops. In December 1988, ahead of opening, the station was named after the Nagoya International Center, a nearby public facility, with the abbreviation "Kokusai Center" adopted as the formal name. Platform-edge sliding doors entered service on 12 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Kokusai Center is technically just one stop from Nagoya Station on the Sakura-dōri Line, the two are also connected directly underground via Unimall — a network of underground shopping arcades — making the walk between them effectively step-free, and the long passage routed beneath that complex (along with a parking-garage approach) is also why the platforms here lie about 20 metres below ground.